Touching My Father's Soul: Climbing Everest in the Footsteps of Tenzing Norgay

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A classic of mountaineering literature, re-issued for the 70th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest. 'A story of passion, hardship and endurance' - Reinhold Messner Touching My Father's Soul recounts Tenzing's son, Jamling Norgay's treacherous climb to the world's most forbidding summit. As famously retold in Krakauer's Into This Air, the 1996 IMAX climbing expedition collided with tragedy. Alongside the story of his own ascent, Jamling tells the story of his father's historic climb. As Jamling's climb unfolds so too does his inner journey. His desire to finally stand alongside his father's soul on the summit of Everest is realised, as is an understanding of his family's Sherpa history and a realisation of the power and significance of the Himalayas. Beautifully repackaged for this new paperback edition, this is a classic.

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A story of passion, hardship and endurance * Reinhold Messner, mountaineer and explorer *
There is much to marvel at in these pages. It taught me a great deal... Enthralling * Jon Krakauer, bestselling author of Into Thin Air *

As profoundly uplifting as it is disturbing, Jamling Tenzing Norgay's revealing account of his quest to understand what led his father to first climb Everest succeeds in every way
Galen Rowell

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Jamling Tenzing Norgay is the son of famed mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, who climbed Everest in 1953 with Sir Edmund Hillary. Jamling is also the star of the IMAX film Everest, and lives in Nepal. Broughton Coburn is the author of the National Geographic Society book Everest- Mountain Without Mercy. Coburn has lived in Nepal for 25 years and has a deep knowledge of Himalayan culture and Tibetan Buddhism.