Tenzing by Ed Douglas
A portrait of the Tibetan-born Sherpa Tenzing Norgay describes his life as an illiterate yak herder, his relationship with Sir Edmund Hillary, and his accomplishments as a mountaineer.
Douglas, Ed: - Ed Douglas has been climbing for over thirty-five years and has been a writer and editor for the last thirty. He launched the magazine On The Edge while at university in Manchester, and has published eight books about mountains and their people. His books include biographies of Tenzing Norgay, rock-climbing visionary Ben Moon and the late British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves. His ghostwritten autobiography of Ron Fawcett, Rock Athlete, won the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature in 2010. Three of the essays in The Magician's Glass were either shortlisted for or won at the Banff Mountain Book Festival in Canada. Douglas's journalistic work most often appears in The Observer and The Guardian. He is the current editor of the Alpine Journal and lives in Sheffield with his wife Kate. They have two grown-up children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780792269830 |
| ISBN 10 | 0792269837 |
| Title | Tenzing |
| Author | Ed Douglas |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | National Geographic Books |
| Year published | 2003-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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