num_pages: 256
description: In the spring of 1955, just two years after Sir Edmund Hillary’s historic first ascent of Mount Everest, Monica Jackson, Elizabeth Stark and Evelyn Camrass formed the first all-female expedition to the Himalaya. In Tents in the Clouds, a memorable and wholly engaging account of their journey, Jackson and Stark describe their trek into the Jugal Himal, a remote, unmapped area of Nepal. With piles of gear, heavy and awkward by today’s standards, and a group of willing Sherpas, they climbed previously unexplored ranges and summited an unknown peak of over twenty-two thousand feet, which they named Gyalgen after their lead Sherpa.Written nearly half a century ago, Tents in the Clouds is a spirited and vivid account of venturing into untrodden territory. A classic in climbing literature, it offers not only a glimpse of an historically significant mountaineering moment, but also a timeless look at the exhilaration of climbing in one of ht most majestic regions on earth.
language: English
title: Tents in the Clouds: The First Women's Himalayan Expedition
titlecomplete: Tents in the Clouds: The First Women's Himalayan Expedition
genres: Travel, Womens, Mountaineering, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 64
publisher: Seal Press