Jon Krakauer’s account of the 1996 expedition to Mt. Everest not only covered the description of the difficult terrain with the extreme climate, but also the health and emotional hurdles that accompanied the group as they attempted the ascent. From the beginning of the book, Krakauer makes it very clear that he feels honored to…

I thoroughly enjoyed Sherry Ortner’s book, Life and Death on Mt Everest. It was different from the recent books that we’ve been reading that included more of a climbing focus, in that it took us much more in depth about the relationships between the Sahib (“boss”: climbers) and the Sherpas. Ortner delivered it in a…

Readign Response Week 12 – The Everest Life Bryant Lymburn In this weeks reading of Sherry Ortner’s work, Life and Death of Mount Everest, she approaches the context of mountaineering from a very different angle compared to many texts written by people more directly involved in the climbing community. This is for one due to her…

This book offered so much insight into the life of Sherpas, which was actually very interesting to me, especially since all semester I feel as though we have been discussing Sherpas in a very vague sense, not wanting to state facts that are false or overgeneralize without the full amount of information we can know…