Jamling Tenzing Norgay
Forfatter af Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest
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Jamling Tenzing Norgay was climbing leader for the 1996 Everest IMAX Filming Expedition and summitted Mount Everest in that year Broughton Coburn is the author of the bestselling Everest: Mountain Without Mercy
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- Andre navne
- NORGAY, Jamling Tenzing
Jambuling Nyandrak, - Fødselsdato
- 1965-04-23
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Nepal
- Fødested
- Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
- Uddannelse
- Northland College
- Erhverv
- mountaineer
- Relationer
- Norgay, Tenzing (father)
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- Medlemmer
- 357
- Popularitet
- #67,136
- Vurdering
- 3.8
- Anmeldelser
- 1
- ISBN
- 19
- Sprog
- 6
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- 1
Jamling, of course, is the son of Tenzing Norgay, who was the first to ascend Mt. Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary. Jamling himself was on an expedition up Everest with a team carrying an IMAX camera in the tragic 1996 season when 12 climbers lost their lives -- most on the same day in the teeth of a ferocious storm.
Norgay's book is a great mixture of those two stories, along with a terrific amount of information about Sherpa culture and Buddhism. This really makes for a fascinating read and a great accompaniment to the two more well-known books about the 1996 Everest season.… (mere)