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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Page 11
... road holding a hose pipe , his thumb pressed over its end , spattering water over the Friendship Highway . Each afternoon from the north , from Tibet , a fine silvery dust blew down the valley , coating everything and so ensuring he ...
... road holding a hose pipe , his thumb pressed over its end , spattering water over the Friendship Highway . Each afternoon from the north , from Tibet , a fine silvery dust blew down the valley , coating everything and so ensuring he ...
Page 12
... road either . None of it was there in the 1940s . In those far - off days the Ranas still ruled from their palaces in Kathmandu and the Dalai Lama looked over his people from the Potala in Lhasa . Mountains , of course , are not really ...
... road either . None of it was there in the 1940s . In those far - off days the Ranas still ruled from their palaces in Kathmandu and the Dalai Lama looked over his people from the Potala in Lhasa . Mountains , of course , are not really ...
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... road beside them . They watched us for a while as we hauled our bags off the truck before returning to their card game . The road had once curled round a spur and around the back of a gully but it wasn't just blocked . It was gone ...
... road beside them . They watched us for a while as we hauled our bags off the truck before returning to their card game . The road had once curled round a spur and around the back of a gully but it wasn't just blocked . It was gone ...
Contents
Gloria in excelsis | 3 |
Tripping with Kafka and the tsampaeaters II | 11 |
All Englishmen cannot be gentlemen | 37 |
Copyright | |
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