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1 Hardie, Norman In Highest Nepal: Our Life Among the Sherpas
London George Allen & Unwin (1957) First Edition Hardcover Good+ in Good dust jacket 
No signatures. Fading to the coloured top page edges. Foxing to dust wrapper. A couple of 2" tears and some shorter tears to dust wrapper. Dust wrapper is price clipped. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; First edition in English. Translated from the German by W. Stanley Moss. 191, [1] pages + colour frontispiece + b&w plates. Green cloth boards with silver titles on spine. Top page edges dyed green. Page dimensions: 216 x 137mm. After climbing to the summit of Kangchenjunga, "Hardie walked with his Sherpa companions across the high ranges and through the deep valleys of upper Nepal until they came to the Sherpa village of Khamjung. There he lived for many months in exactly the same conditions as the Sherpas themselves, sharing their food and homes, joining in their festivals and taking part in all their traditional activities. Later he was joined by his wife and they shared the Sherpa life together, while the author carried out a survey of the locality and settled some doubtful details in the maps." - from dust wrapper blurb. Travel, Himalayas. Contents: After Kangchenjunga; Private Expedition; Pastures New; The Humid Arun; South of Chamlang; Dumji; Living High; Daily Life in Khumjung; Marriage and Medicine; Indian Interlude; Back to Khamjung; The Hongu; Finish Hogia. ; ; 8vo 
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