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White Sherpas

Author : Patrick Cullinan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780994418470
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book White Sherpas written by Patrick Cullinan and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Cullinan is the first member of the Australian Defence Force to climb Mount Everest. He achieved this as part of the 1988 Australian Bicentennial Everest Expedition.Patrick's journey to the summit of Everest start with his days as a cadet at Duntroon and continued through his time as the commander of Climbing Troop at the Special Air Service Regiment. He takes us up Mount Gauri Shankar in Nepal (his apprenticeship), Broad Peak in Pakistan (the rehearsal) and then finally to Everest with the Bicentennial Expedition. The Expedition team decided to forgo the usual practice of using climbing sherpas, prompting the Sherpa Sungdare, who at the time had climbed Everest five times, to say to one of the Australian expedition members, 'You guys are White Sherpas.'

Gaiety of Spirit

Author : Frances Klatzel
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1926855914
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Gaiety of Spirit written by Frances Klatzel and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the birth of modern mountaineering, the term Sherpa has been used to refer to Himalayan men working as guides on expeditions in and around the area of Mount Everest. Known mostly for their remarkable mountaineering skills and expertise, Sherpas are much more than mere high-altitude porters. The Sherpas are an extraordinary ethnic people who settled the remote valleys in the Himalayas about 500 years ago and whose culture is steeped in the rich philosophical traditions of Himalayan Buddhism. As distinguished British Himalayan mountaineer Eric Shipton wrote: “ . . . the temperament and character of the Sherpas . . . have won them a large place in the hearts of the Western travellers. Their most enduring characteristic is their extraordinary gaiety of spirit.” For three decades, writer and naturalist Frances Klatzel has lived and worked with Sherpas near Mount Everest. During this time, she has gained intimate access and a profound knowledge of the people, helping to create the Sherpa Cultural Centre at Tengboche, the largest Buddhist monastery in the region. Infused with the author’s own reflections and experiences, and complete with colour photos highlighting Sherpa life from the metaphysical to the everyday, Gaiety of Spirit will take the reader on a magnificent journey toward a richer level of understanding of Sherpa culture, traditions, symbols, belief and history.

The Good News is the Bad News is Wrong

Author : Ben J. Wattenberg
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute
ISBN 13 : 9780671606411
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Good News is the Bad News is Wrong written by Ben J. Wattenberg and published by American Enterprise Institute. This book was released on 1985 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In search of the truth about the American condition, the author examines the latest social, economic, attitudinal, and demographic data.

Life and Death on Mt. Everest

Author : Sherry B. Ortner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691211779
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Book Synopsis Life and Death on Mt. Everest by : Sherry B. Ortner

Download or read book Life and Death on Mt. Everest written by Sherry B. Ortner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, however, crashed to a stop near Sherpas on a separate expedition far below. They stared at the frozen corpse, stunned. They said nothing, but an American climber observing the scene interpreted their thoughts: Nobody would throw the body of a white climber off Mt. Everest. For more than a century, climbers from around the world have journ-eyed to test themselves on Everest's treacherous slopes, enlisting the expert aid of the Sherpas who live in the area. Drawing on years of field research in the Himalayas, renowned anthropologist Sherry Ortner presents a compelling account of the evolving relationship between the mountaineers and the Sherpas, a relationship of mutual dependence and cultural conflict played out in an environment of mortal risk. Ortner explores this relationship partly through gripping accounts of expeditions--often in the climbers' own words--ranging from nineteenth-century forays by the British through the historic ascent of Hillary and Tenzing to the disasters described in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air. She reveals the climbers, or "sahibs," to use the Sherpas' phrase, as countercultural romantics, seeking to transcend the vulgarity and materialism of modernity through the rigor and beauty of mountaineering. She shows how climbers' behavior toward the Sherpas has ranged from kindness to cruelty, from cultural sensitivity to derision. Ortner traces the political and economic factors that led the Sherpas to join expeditions and examines the impact of climbing on their traditional culture, religion, and identity. She examines Sherpas' attitude toward death, the implications of the shared masculinity of Sherpas and sahibs, and the relationship between Sherpas and the increasing number of women climbers. Ortner also tackles debates about whether the Sherpas have been "spoiled" by mountaineering and whether climbing itself has been spoiled by commercialism.

The Sherpas and Their Original Identity

Author : Serku Sherpa
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527594408
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book The Sherpas and Their Original Identity written by Serku Sherpa and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a cultural and historical perspective on the Sherpa people, exploring how their traditional way of life has been impacted by such factors as urbanisation, modernisation, globalisation, and tourism. Though Nepal is a small country, it is rich in ethnic, religious, linguistic, and cultural resources. Various communities living in Nepal, including the Sherpas, have their own original cultures, traditions, and practices. Despite outside influence, the Sherpa people have preserved their distinct lifestyle, which encompasses a unique history, culture, religion, language, cuisine, and set of traditions. It was only after the summit of Everest in 1953 that domestic and foreign scholars began to take an interest in documenting the Sherpa people’s way of life. The Sherpa’s language is an oral one, and with this comes difficulties. Various translations into other languages have caused mistranslations and a loss of meaning. Written by a Sherpa, this book seeks to overcome these linguistic barriers and bring Sherpa culture to the reader. Serving as a collection of knowledge from distinguished scholars of the Sherpa community, religious leaders, intellectuals, social workers, and community organisations, this book is a unique (auto)ethnographic work which bridges the gap between researchers speaking other languages and Sherpa people.

The Sherpas of Nepal in the Tibetan Cultural Context

Author : Robert A. Paul
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120805682
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book The Sherpas of Nepal in the Tibetan Cultural Context written by Robert A. Paul and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sherpas of Sagarmatha

Author : Larry Steed
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1642982121
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book The Sherpas of Sagarmatha written by Larry Steed and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Delisted

Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas

Author : Vincanne Adams
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400851777
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas written by Vincanne Adams and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherpas are portrayed by Westerners as heroic mountain guides, or "tigers of the snow," as Buddhist adepts, and as a people in touch with intimate ways of life that seem no longer available in the Western world. In this book, Vincanne Adams explores how attempts to characterize an "authentic" Sherpa are complicated by Western fascination with Sherpas and by the Sherpas' desires to live up to Western portrayals of them. Noting that diplomatic aides at world summit meetings go by the name "Sherpa," as do a van in the U.K. built for rough terrain and a software product from Silicon Valley, Adams examines the "authenticating" effects of this mobile signifier on a community of Himalayan Sherpas who live at the base of Mount Everest, Nepal, and its "deauthenticating" effects on anthropological representation. This book speaks not only to anthropologists concerned with ethnographic portrayals of Otherness but also to those working in cultural studies who are concerned with ethnographically grounded analyses of representations. Throughout Adams illustrates how one might undertake an ethnography of transnationally produced subjects by using the notion of "virtual" identities. In a manner informed by both Buddhism and shamanism, virtual Sherpas are always both real and distilled reflections of the desires that produce them.

Sherpas Through Their Rituals

Author : Sherry B. Ortner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521292160
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Sherpas Through Their Rituals written by Sherry B. Ortner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978-04-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Ortner examines the Sherpas of the Himalayas.

Tigers of the Snow

Author : Jonathan Neale
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312266233
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (662 download)

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Download or read book Tigers of the Snow written by Jonathan Neale and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-06-29 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After spending almost a year in Nepal and India, Neale presents the true story of tragedy and survival on one of the world's most dangerous mountains and illuminates the gripping history of the Sherpa. 16-page photo insert.

Buried in the Sky

Author : Peter Zuckerman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393079880
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Buried in the Sky written by Peter Zuckerman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 2008, when 11 climbers lost their lives on K2, the world's most dangerous peak, two Sherpas survived and are two of the most skillful mountaineers on earth.

The Sherpas of Nepal

Author : Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sherpas of Nepal written by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Staying Together

Author : Nicholas Bayne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351148583
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Staying Together written by Nicholas Bayne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from Hanging In There, this comprehensive volume empirically covers the summits from the UK meeting in Birmingham in 1998 to the UK meeting in 2005. In essence, this study reviews a full G8 cycle. The analytical framework rests on three general summit objectives: political leadership, reconciling international/domestic and collective management, and six subject-specific performance indicators: leadership, effectiveness, solidarity, durability, acceptability, consistency. Including a detailed look at summits pre-Birmingham, it reviews developments from 1998 by examining each summit from the subsequent summit performances, such as financial issues and debt, trade issues and development, to the most recent discussion on Africa, terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Moreover, it covers the development of the G8 apparatus, the impact of Russia's membership and links with non-G8 governments and non-state actors. It concludes with an assessment as to whether the G8 achieves its three general summit objectives.

Yeti

Author : Jack Slade
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1403394369
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Yeti written by Jack Slade and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2003-01-24 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beware . Magical creatures are watching as Prince Krystopher's quest for the magic stone has now begun. Fairies, elves, unicorns, pegasus, durgans, goblins, giant bats....are they friends or enemies? Will the magical creatures help Prince Krystopher and his friends search for the answer to the clues to find Mount Zerca or will enemies conquer them and become their prisoners? Or were the clues just a trick? So join the quest now and find out for yourselves! But let this be a warning...you will be traced. Will Prince Krystopher's journey break the curse and finally come to an end? Watch out for The Prince's Valor, the last book of The Snake Prince of Montreal Series as the Snake Prince continues his journey. Also available now, Book One: The Snake Prince of Montreal: The Witch's Vengeance.

Portraits of the Himalayas

Author : John Lambert
Publisher : Scripsi
ISBN 13 : 0955288401
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book Portraits of the Himalayas written by John Lambert and published by Scripsi. This book was released on with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Climbing Mount Cook - A Collection of Historical Mountaineering Accounts of Expeditions to the Southern Alps of New Zealand

Author : Various
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528764013
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Climbing Mount Cook - A Collection of Historical Mountaineering Accounts of Expeditions to the Southern Alps of New Zealand written by Various and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Journey with the Sherpas

Author : William (Zeke) O'Connor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780986547348
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Journey with the Sherpas written by William (Zeke) O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Zeke O'Connor as he takes you through the many journeys he has travelled over the past six decades, first as a remarkably successful athelete (yes, it's the Zeke O'Connor who scored the winning touchdown with the Toronto Argonauts in 1952), then as a friend and companion to Sir Edmund Hillary as the two towering men scaled Mount Everest, and finally to the most amazing journeys of all. As the founding President of The Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation, there is no one better equipped than Zeke O'Connor to tell of how this foundation enabled the Nepalese Sherpas to build their own 13 medical clinics and 17 schools over the past few decades, to establish literacy programs for women, and to spearhead a reforestation project that saw the planting of over 2 million seedlings over a 30-year span. Each journey described in this unique memoir is told with grace and humility. It is a celebration of the human spirit and lives well lived.