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 94
... wall , wooden shelves for fine copper ware and cheap china on another , and large trellised window frames set with ... walls , and rough pine beams and window frames . There was a fluorescent tube lighting the dining room and a tape ...
... wall , wooden shelves for fine copper ware and cheap china on another , and large trellised window frames set with ... walls , and rough pine beams and window frames . There was a fluorescent tube lighting the dining room and a tape ...
Page 103
... walls were icons of Chenresig , the patron deity of Tibet , the Buddha Sakyamuni and the Guru Rinpoche who brought ... wall - charts about the park and picked up a leaflet about minimising my impact . This ini- tiative to clean up the ...
... walls were icons of Chenresig , the patron deity of Tibet , the Buddha Sakyamuni and the Guru Rinpoche who brought ... wall - charts about the park and picked up a leaflet about minimising my impact . This ini- tiative to clean up the ...
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... walls . I felt as though I had unplugged from the current that flowed between Lukla and Everest . When Dachhiri ... wall . I was alarmed to see my altimeter reading close to 6000 metres but it was a superb point from which - to view ...
... walls . I felt as though I had unplugged from the current that flowed between Lukla and Everest . When Dachhiri ... wall . I was alarmed to see my altimeter reading close to 6000 metres but it was a superb point from which - to view ...
Contents
Gloria in excelsis | 3 |
Tripping with Kafka and the tsampaeaters II | 11 |
All Englishmen cannot be gentlemen | 37 |
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