Life and death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan mountaineering
Travel and geography, Asian travel and geography
Human-transcribed braille
Summary
For more than a century, climbers from around the world have journeyed 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. 1999.
Title Details
ISBN
9780691074481
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Copyright Date
1999
Book number
2448042
Braille details for CELA title
Volumes
10
Braille code
UEB
Braille producer
South African Library for the Blind, 2011.