Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest
by Jamling Tenzing Norgay
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Jamling Norgay recounts his 1996 ascent of Mount Everest and examines his father's ascent in 1953, when he became the first person ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest.Tags
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Jamling Tenzing Norgay's "Touching my Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest" is really an excellent book. It was wonderful to read about Everest from a Sherpa's perspective.
Jamling, of course, is the son of Tenzing Norgay, who was the first to ascend Mt. Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary. Jamling himself was on an expedition up Everest with a team carrying an IMAX camera in the tragic 1996 season when 12 climbers lost their lives -- most on the same day in the teeth of a ferocious storm.
Norgay's book is a great mixture of those two stories, along with a terrific amount of information about Sherpa culture and Buddhism. This really makes for a fascinating read and a great accompaniment to the two more well-known books show more about the 1996 Everest season. show less
Jamling, of course, is the son of Tenzing Norgay, who was the first to ascend Mt. Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary. Jamling himself was on an expedition up Everest with a team carrying an IMAX camera in the tragic 1996 season when 12 climbers lost their lives -- most on the same day in the teeth of a ferocious storm.
Norgay's book is a great mixture of those two stories, along with a terrific amount of information about Sherpa culture and Buddhism. This really makes for a fascinating read and a great accompaniment to the two more well-known books show more about the 1996 Everest season. show less
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Jamling Tenzing Norgay was climbing leader for the 1996 Everest IMAX Filming Expedition and summitted Mount Everest in that year Broughton Coburn is the author of the bestselling Everest: Mountain Without Mercy
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- Original publication date
- 2001
- People/Characters
- David Breashears; Anatoli Boukreev; Scott Fischer; Charlotte Fox; Makalu Gau; Goran Gropp (show all 15); Rob Hall; Doug Hanson; Sir Edmund Hillary; Jon Krakauer; Tim Madsen; Tenzing Norgay; Sandy Hill Pittman; Ed Viesters; Beck Weathers
- Important places
- Mount Everest / Sagarmatha; Himalayas; Tibet
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- Genres
- Sports and Leisure, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, Travel, Religion & Spirituality
- DDC/MDS
- 796.52 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Sports Outdoor leisure Walking and exploring by kind of terrain
- LCC
- GV199.92 .N65 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Recreation. Leisure Recreation. Leisure
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- 384
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- (3.80)
- Languages
- 7 — Dutch, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook
- ISBNs
- 19
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- 1
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