Author: Ortner, Sherry B.
Title: Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1999). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xiii, 376 pp. Textual photo illustrations. Minor rubbing. Light binding corner bump. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Beginning; Sahibs; Sherpas; Monks; Death; Men; Counterculture; Women; Reconfigurations; Epilogue; Appendices: Tales; Monasteries.

Keywords: Himalayan Anthropology, Nepal, Himalayas Himalaya, Sherpa Ethnography, Sherpas, Mountaineering, Ethnology, Sociology, Ethnic History