Life and Death on Mt. Everest
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: August 9, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780691006895
Subjects: Climbing & mountaineering; Ethnography; Social & cultural anthropology; Mountain Climbing; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Himalayas; Mountaineering; Anthropology - Cultural; Anthropology; Asian and Asian American Studies; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Anthropology - General; Everest, Mount (China and Nepa; Everest, Mount (China and Nepal); History; Sherpa (Nepalese people)
First sentence: In May of 1996, eight people in three different parties died in a storm on Mount Everest.