book: Touching My Father's Soul | Jamling Tenzing Norgay, Broughton Coburn ...

book: Touching My Father's Soul | Jamling Tenzing Norgay, Broughton Coburn ...

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	• Touching My Father's Soul Jamling Tenzing Norgay, Broughton Coburn Ebury Press, 2002 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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Sensitive and Informative

I resonated to this book. Jamling Tenzing Norgay is a son of the famous Sherpa climber Tenzing Norgay, who together with Sir Edmund Hillary became, in 1953, the first men to reach the summit of Everest.
Some of you may have read Jon Krakauer's book "Into Thin Air", about the ill-fated Spring 1996 climbing season on Everest. Jamling follows in his father's footsteps and finds himself high on Everest that same Spring, as a key member of David Breashear's IMAX film team.
The book combines a most interesting and informative look inside the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism together with the local people's mythology of the spirits protecting the famous mountain. These are woven together with stories of the 1953 Everest climb, and the tragic Spring 1996 Everest climbing season. Jamling's journey is both an inner and outer one, and is presented to us with sensitivity and insight. I recommend it highly.

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