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Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
xii, 376 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the J.I. Staley Prize" Sherry B. Ortner is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of two previous books on the Sherpas of Nepal, Sherpas through Their Rituals and High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism (Princeton), and has also written books on social, cultural, and feminist theory. She has received numerous prestigious awards, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation...
3) Two Sherpas
Author
Publisher
Charco Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An Englishman has fallen from a ridge in Nepal. His guides kneel at the edge, exchanging the odd word, waiting for him to move. They must make a decision to descend. In those minutes, Two Sherpas expands dizzyingly to encompass Mount Everest's place in the imagination of imperialists, Nazis and others; ambition, exploration and exploitation; a mysterious encounter in a beach resort in a distant land; a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xvi, 285 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Presents the stories of the Sherpas who have acted as expert consultants to Westerners climbing the Himalayas, focusing in particular on Chhiring Dorje Sherpa and Pasang Lama, who survived when eleven other climbers died on K2 in August 2008.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 36
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The magic tree house has whisked Jack and Annie to the Himalayas in Nepal. They're searching for the mysterious Gray Ghost...Jack does not want to find a ghost. But he and Annie are excited about all the amazing animals they see. So excited, in fact, that Annie and Jack get lost in the mountains! Can they make their way to safety before the Gray Ghost finds them?"--
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 22 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A cultural, geological, and ecological history of Mount Everest focusing on the indigenous Sherpa and their spiritual connection to the mountain, record-setting multinational climbing expeditions, and the effects of tourism on the environment. Illustrated with photographs, maps, diagrams, and timelines"--Provided by publisher.
7) Pemba Sherpa
Author
Publisher
Odyssey Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a Sherpa village in the foothills of Nepal's Himalayas, seven-year-old Yang Ki wants to haul wood like her brother Pemba, so she'll grow strong enough to be a porter. She wants to learn her brother tells her that girls cannot be guides. Yang Ki, however, is very determined.
8) Namaste!
Author
Publisher
SteinerBooks
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Whenever Nima meets someone on her long walk to the market village in Nepal, she brings her hands together with her fingers almost touching her chin, bows her head slightly, and says "Namaste," which means "the light in me meets the light in you." Includes information on the geography, culture, and people of Nepal.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 336 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The true story of the tragedy and survival on one of the world's most dangerous mountains.
In 1922 Himalayan climbers were British gentlemen, and their Sherpa and Tibetan porters were "coolies," unskilled and inexperienced casual laborers. By 1953 Sherpa Tenzing Norgay stood on the summit of Everest, and the coolies had become the "Tigers of the Snow."
Jonathan Neale's absorbing new book is both a compelling history of the oft-forgotten heroes of...
13) Sherpa
Publisher
Discovery
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Every year, Western mountain climbers make news ascending Mount Everest. The compelling stories of the Sherpas, the Nepalese guides who risk their lives to provide for their families, have remained a mystery, until now. This chronicles a fateful 2014 expedition and the tragic avalanche that spurred the Sherpas to make a stand for human rights and respect.
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