ALPINE RISING: SHERPAS, BALTIS AND THE TRIUMPH OF LOCAL CLIMBERS IN THE GREATER RANGES 2024 1st ed Hc New SIGNED by Bernadette McDonald Multiple copies are available Banff Book Awaed Winner: Mountain Literature - The Jon Whyte Award (McDonald, Bernadette)

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	Item #: BK4801-84315 ALPINE RISING: SHERPAS, BALTIS AND THE TRIUMPH OF LOCAL CLIMBERS IN THE GREATER RANGES 2024 1st ed Hc New SIGNED by Bernadette McDonald Multiple copies are available Banff Book Awaed Winner: Mountain Literature - The Jon Whyte Award By McDonald, Bernadette Price: $34.95 Add to wish list Click Here For Related Selections
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Seattle, Mountaineers, 2024, 1st edition. 272 pp, photos. New hardcover. Other than the author's signature, there is no writing in the book or other flaws, and the dust jacket has no wear and is not price clipped. The Dust Jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear plastic book cover. The Dust Jacket and the Book are in Fine or even New condition. Banff Book Award Winner: Mountain Literature (non-fiction) - The Jon Whyte Award. Our copies are SIGNED by Bernadette McDonald. Although rarely mentioned in published accounts of early expeditions, indigenous Himalayan climbers have long been significant members of first ascents on the world�s tallest and most challenging peaks. In Alpine Rising, award-winning writer Bernadette McDonald sets the record straight by shining a light on these too often forgotten heroes. The name of Maurice Herzog, the first man to reach the summit of Annapurna, is widely recognized, but how many know Ang Tharkay, the Sherpa who carried the seriously frostbitten Herzog on his back for miles? Now, in the 21st century, it is often local climbers who are setting records. A Nepali team was the first to climb K2 in winter; they reached the summit while singing their national anthem. Pakistani climbers like Little Karim and Ali Sadpara devoted their lives to helping others survive and succeed on and off the mountains and their stories deserve to be more widely known. Not only a timely reminder of the need to recognize the contributions of local climbers and the importance of correcting the historical record, Alpine Rising is a celebration of a region�s local heroes. "Alpine Rising is a fascinating history of the crucial and frequently tragic role of local Nepalis, Tibetans, and Pakistanis on mountaineering expeditions to the world�s highest peaks."-- Jon Krakauer From Banff Award Jury: We are privileged as judges to honour not one but two books which help transform our understanding of Himalayan mountaineering. Bernadette McDonald�s Alpine Rising, arguably the most important book in her long and distinguished career, tells the unsung, heroic and sometimes tragic story of the Sherpas, the Baltis and other Indigenous peoples without whom no Himalayan peak could have been climbed. As truths emerge from the shadows of empire and they take their rightful place in their own world, she reveals the lives and humanity behind their dramatic stories, culminating in the all-Nepali first winter ascent of K2. � Tony Whittome, 2024 Book Competition Jury
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