Tigers of the Snow: How One Fateful Climb Made the Sherpas Mountaineering Legends
Author(s):
Neale, Jonathan
Copyright: 2002, US
Specifications: 1st, 8vo, pp.xv, 336, 27 bw photos, 5 maps, grey cloth
Condition: dj & cloth new
Neale’s look at the Sherpa climbers begins not with Tenzing’s famous ascent of Everest but rather with the earlier, gripping story of the disasterous 1934 German attempt on Nanga Parbat. A compelling read.