Life and Death on Mt. Everest
Subtitle: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: May 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780691074481
Subjects: Climbing & mountaineering; Ethnography; Social & cultural anthropology; Mountaineering; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Himalayas; Anthropology - Cultural; Archaeology; Anthropology; Asian and Asian American Studies; Social Science / Archaeology
First sentence: In May of 1996, eight people in three different parties died in a storm on Mount Everest.