Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas: An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters by Vincanne Adams

Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas: An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters

Vincanne Adams

324 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

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Sherpas are portrayed by Westerners as heroic mountain guides, or tigers of the snow, as Buddhist adepts, and as a people in touch with intimate ways of life that seem no longer available in the Western world. In this book, Vincanne Adams explores...

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