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Tigers of the snow : how one fateful climb made the Sherpas mountaineering legends / Jonathan Neale.
Van Pelt Library GV199.44 .P182 N367 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neale, Jonathan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mountaineering expeditions--Pakistan--Nanga Parbat.
- Mountaineering expeditions.
- Sherpa (Nepalese people).
- Nanga Parbat (Pakistan)--Description and travel.
- Nanga Parbat (Pakistan).
- Pakistan--Nanga Parbat.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Part I Sherpas and Sahibs
- Chapter 1 The Sherpas 3
- Chapter 2 The First Expeditions 33
- Chapter 3 The Germans 63
- Part II The Climb
- Chapter 4 Chits and Knives 89
- Chapter 5 Iron Determination 123
- Chapter 6 The Storm 151
- Chapter 7 Gaylay 175
- Chapter 8 Darjeeling 194
- Part III The Shadow of Nanga Parbat
- Chapter 9 The German Siege 207
- Chapter 10 The Sherpa Survivors 219
- Chapter 11 Tenzing Meets the Guides 239
- Chapter 12 The Tribulations of a Sardar 261
- Chapter 13 1953 275
- Chapter 14 Home 293
- Khumbu 6
- North India, Nepal, China, and Tibet in 1934 30
- Nanga Parbat in 1934 118
- K2 in 1939 223
- Everest, Southern Route, 1952 and 1953 249.
- Notes:
- "Thomas Dunne Books."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-323) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312266235
- OCLC:
- 48501051
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