Chomolungma Sings the Blues: Travels Round EverestConstable, 1997 - 226 pages Combining travel writing with an insight of the social and environmental problems caused by climbers, Douglas examines a region that is struggling to develop and change. It is the story of resourceful and cultured people finding a balance between the new and the old, who rely on the work Everest provides. |
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... hundred monks and nuns lived there in its boom years under the inspirational teaching of Ngawang Tenzin Norbu , its head lama . His influence extended into Nepal where he estab- lished four monasteries before his death in 1940 . A small ...
... hundred monks and nuns lived there in its boom years under the inspirational teaching of Ngawang Tenzin Norbu , its head lama . His influence extended into Nepal where he estab- lished four monasteries before his death in 1940 . A small ...
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... hundred primary schools in Nepal and now there are thousands , raising the literacy rate from a figure some had put as low as two per cent . But then the hundreds of millions of dollars that the United States alone poured into the ...
... hundred primary schools in Nepal and now there are thousands , raising the literacy rate from a figure some had put as low as two per cent . But then the hundreds of millions of dollars that the United States alone poured into the ...
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... hundred and fifty , with over a hundred of these deaths occuring in the last twenty years . The rush of mountaineers to Everest and the con- sequent commercial opportunities have left the mountaineering world concerned and confused ...
... hundred and fifty , with over a hundred of these deaths occuring in the last twenty years . The rush of mountaineers to Everest and the con- sequent commercial opportunities have left the mountaineering world concerned and confused ...
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Gloria in excelsis | 3 |
Tripping with Kafka and the tsampaeaters II | 11 |
All Englishmen cannot be gentlemen | 37 |
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