Tigers of the Snow: How One Fateful Climb Made The Sherpas Mountaineering Legends by Jonathan Neale
Tigers of the Snow: How One Fateful Climb Made The Sherpas Mountaineering Legends
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Jonathan Neale
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Tigers of the Snow: How One Fateful Climb Made The Sherpas Mountaineering Legends

Jonathan Neale

320 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous slow-paced
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The Sherpas were not born climbers. When the British went to Everest in 1921, they hired porters. Yet by 1953 these Porters had become the famous 'Tigers of the Snow'. The book describes the decisive moment in the transformation of 'coolies' (port...

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