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The son of the first Sherpa to climb Mount Everest recalls his father's historic achievement, introducing a local perspective on this renowned peak and the culture of the Tibetan Sherpas who live in the shadow of the mountain.
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...insightful meditation on climbing, spirituality and life -- a breath-taking and inspiring view from the other side of the mountain. --David Breashears
Touching My Father's Soul rises above the bumper crop of books on Everest's tragic 1996 season. --Outside Magazine May 2001
There is much to marvel at in these page. It taught me a great deal....Enthralling to read. --Jon Krakauer
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Touching My Father's Soul rises above the bumper crop of books on Everest's tragic 1996 season. --Outside Magazine May 2001
There is much to marvel at in these page. It taught me a great deal....Enthralling to read. --Jon Krakauer
Star of the IMAX movie Everest, which chronicled the tragic 1996 climb, and Climbing Leader of the IMAX Everest Expedition, Jamling Tenzing Norgay is the son of famed mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, the first to summit Everest, together with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953. Norgay runs his family's travel adventure company, Tenzing Norgay Adventures, which teaches half a million climbers each year. Norgay is based in Darjeeling, India, when he is not climbing.
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- PublisherHarper San Francisco
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0062516876
- ISBN 13 9780062516879
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages304
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Foreward by His Holiness The Dalai Lama. Introduction by Jon Krakauer. The Great Untold Story of EverestSherpas are part of our everyday parlance, yet we know so little of their world beyond their depiction as climbing wonders. In Touching My Father's Soul, Jamling Tenzing Norgay gives us an insider's view of the Sherpa world as he tells a story of Everest unlike any told before. His tale is one of profound adventure that entwines the lives of a family, a mountain, and a people. New, unread, first edition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} A81/ II/ EE. Seller Inventory # 6981
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEW. Uncorrected Proof. BRAND NEW Copy/UNCORRECTED PROOF. 1996 was a singularly deadly year in Everest history; fifteen mountaineers meet their deaths during the year's climbing season. Memoir of Sherpa mountaineer Jamling Tenzing Norgay (1965 -), son of Tenzing Norgay (1914 - 1986) who, with Sir Edmund Hillary, was first two to scale summit of Mt Everest in 1953. This narrative, with Broughton Coburn (coauthor of Everest: Mountain Without Mercy) chronicles Norgay's 1996 experience as the climbing leader for the North Ridge IMAX film expedition on Mount Everest, reaching the summit just just two weeks after tradgedy struck the South Ridge party (chronicled Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air). A personal memoir, a unique adventure couched in the history, politics, triumphs, and tragedies of climbing the world's tallest mountain, and a tribute to his legendary father. Seller Inventory # 009846
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