Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering by Sherry B. Ortner

Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering

Sherry B. Ortner

392 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction adventurous informative slow-paced
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The Sherpas were dead, two more victims of an attempt to scale Mt. Everest. Members of a French climbing expedition, sensitive perhaps about leaving the bodies where they could not be recovered, rolled them off a steep mountain face. One body, how...

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