Tigers of the Snow: How One Fateful Climb Made the Sherpas Mountaineering Legends

by Jonathan Neale

Book Overview

The true story of the tragedy and survival on one of the world's most dangerous mountains. In 1922 Himalayan climbers were British gentlemen, and their Sherpa and Tibetan porters were "coolies," unskilled and inexperienced casual laborers. By 1953 Sherpa Tenzing Norgay stood on the summit of Everest, and the coolies had become the "Tigers of the Snow." Jonathan Neale's absorbing new book is both a compelling history of the oft-forgotten heroes of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312266235
• ISBN13: 9780312266233
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful

This is a book of absolute necessity for anyone who claims to be a mountaineer, and there are few true mountaineers from any school of the art anymore. Showing one of the - if not the first - crucial turning points for the Sherpa people as simple labourors for foolhardy, selfish foreigners to the truest examples of mountaineers on the world's great peaks. For the history alone, and for Neale's obvious reverence for the Sherpas of Nanga Parbat, this book is an important addition to mountain literature.