The one thing that always bugged me about stories about mountain climbing was how little press the Sherpas got. True, you climbed whatever, but who did all the heavy lifting. Wouldn't true mountain climbing be doing the work of a Sherpa?This book actually looks at a mountain tragedy with the focus o...
I learned so much while reading this book about Sherpa culture and the cultures of the many non-Sherpas that get lumped in with them by westerners that do not realize that Sherpa is not a job description. This is a part of the world that I am not at all familiar with and I found the descriptions of ...