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 154
... Summit as they descended and Woodall has said he tried to persuade him to descend but that Bruce was determined to con- tinue . He reached the summit after five o'clock and radioed down just as Sue Thompson , his partner of seven years ...
... Summit as they descended and Woodall has said he tried to persuade him to descend but that Bruce was determined to con- tinue . He reached the summit after five o'clock and radioed down just as Sue Thompson , his partner of seven years ...
Page 161
... summit . I wondered whether the higher price put more pressure on the guides to get clients to the summit . In the free - market , multi - million - dollar economy of climbing Everest , safety was supposed to come first , but who was to ...
... summit . I wondered whether the higher price put more pressure on the guides to get clients to the summit . In the free - market , multi - million - dollar economy of climbing Everest , safety was supposed to come first , but who was to ...
Page 178
... summit the day before would be beyond the powers of almost every non - Sherpa in the world and many Sherpas as well . When Boukreev found Scott's body at seven in the evening , the American had no gloves on and his jacket was unzipped ...
... summit the day before would be beyond the powers of almost every non - Sherpa in the world and many Sherpas as well . When Boukreev found Scott's body at seven in the evening , the American had no gloves on and his jacket was unzipped ...
Contents
Gloria in excelsis | 3 |
Tripping with Kafka and the tsampaeaters II | 11 |
All Englishmen cannot be gentlemen | 37 |
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