Under the Himalayan sky
Subtitle: establishing Sagarmatha National Park - a New Zealand family's experience
By: by Margaret Jefferies
Publisher: Vajra Books
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Kathmadu, Nepal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9789937623650
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Homes and haunts; History; Social life and customs; Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) - History - 20th century; Sagarmāthā National Park (Nepal); Himalaya Mountains Region - Social life and customs - History; Jefferies, Margaret - Homes and haunts; Jeffries family - Homes and haunts; Khumbu Mountains (Nepal) - History - 20th century; Homes; Manners and customs
Description: "In the 1970s, the Nepalese government established an agreement with New Zealand for help in setting up a national park in the Mt Everest region of the Himalayas. Bruce Jefferies, an Assistant Supervising Ranger with New Zealand's National Park Service, took off for Nepal with his wife Margaret, and three young children. They had little idea of what to expect in this remote, high-altitude environment. Under the Himalayan Sky is Margaret's memoir of the time the family spent in Khumbu (Mt Everest), with no running water or electricity, largely cut off from the outside world, living on the traditional local diet of potatoes and tea. In spite of what might be perceived as hardships, the family embraced life amongst the colourful and hospitable Sherpa people. Margaret's story paints a fascinating portrait of this region of Nepal in the early days before large scale tourism and trekking opened it up to the outside world."--Amazon.
Notes: New Zealand author.