Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest
In a story of Everest unlike any told before, Jamling Tenzing Norgay gives us an insider's view of the Sherpa world. As Climbing Leader of the famed 1996 Everest IMAX expedition led by David Breashears, Jamling Norgay was able to follow in the footsteps of his legendary mountaineer father,...
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In a story of Everest unlike any told before, Jamling Tenzing Norgay gives us an insider's view of the Sherpa world. As Climbing Leader of the famed 1996 Everest IMAX expedition led by David Breashears, Jamling Norgay was able to follow in the footsteps of his legendary mountaineer father, Tenzing Norgay, who with Sir Edmund Hillary was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in 1953. Jamling Norgay interweaves the story of his own ascent during the infamous May 1996 Mount Everest disaster with little-known stories from his father's historic climb and the spiritual life of the Sherpas, revealing a fascinating and profound world that few -- even many who have made it to the top -- have ever seen.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780062516886 (0062516884)
ASIN: 62516884
Publish date: May 14th 2002
Publisher: HarperOne
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Cultural,
Asia,
Biography Memoir,
Sports,
Mountaineering,
Climbing
I met Jamling Tenzing Norgay, the son of the first man (along with Edmund Hillary) to summit Everest, at a book talk in 2006. Very happy to report that it took me a mere decade to actually read the book he signed for me. I'm glad I finally did it! I also watched the IMAX film that was made on the cl...