Tigers of the Snow
Subtitle: How One Fateful Climb Made The Sherpas Mountaineering Legends
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: June 29, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780312266233
Subjects: History; Mountaineering; Nature / General; Anthropology - General; Asia - General; Mountain Climbing; South Asia - History; Sports & Recreation; Mountaineering expeditions; Nanga Parbat; Nanga Parbat (Pakistan); Pakistan; Sherpa (Nepalese people); Sports
First sentence: About five hundred years ago there was fighting in Kham, in eastern Tibet, and many refugees fled.