Author : Sebastián Martínez Daniell
Publisher : Charco Press
ISBN 13 : 1913867420
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (138 download)
Book Synopsis Two Sherpas by : Sebastián Martínez Daniell
Download or read book Two Sherpas written by Sebastián Martínez Daniell and published by Charco Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mount Everest, and all it means to royalty, explorers, imperialists, and two sherpas, perched on a cliffside, waiting for a man on the ledge below to move. A British climber has fallen from a cliffside in Nepal, and lies inert on a ledge below. Two sherpas kneel at the edge, stand, exchange the odd word, waiting for him to move, to make a decision, to descend. In those minutes, the world opens up to Kathmandu, a sun-bleached beach town on another continent, and the pages of Julius Caesar. Mountaineering, colonialism, obligation—in Sebastián Martínez Daniell's effortless prose each breath is crystalline, and the whole world is visible from here.