Tigers Of The Snow : Sherpa Climbers, 'Tigers of the Snow' Puddly Award for History (2001) Anti-Monitor

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Tigers Of The Snow : Sherpa Climbers, 'Tigers of the Snow' Puddly Award for History (2001) Anti-MonitorThe 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". This book describes the decisive moment in the transformation of "coolies" (porters and labourers) into the Sherpas as climbing legends: the German expedition to Nanga Parbat in 1934. During that disastrous climb, the Europeans unroped from their inexperienced porters and fled to safety