Download or read book Himalayan Wanderer written by Charles Granville Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Himalayan Wanderer written by C.G. Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Himalayan Wanderer written by C. C. Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess written by Ehud Halperin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hadimba is a primary village goddess in the Kullu Valley of the West Indian Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, a rural area known as the Land of Gods. As the book shows, Hadimba is a goddess whose vitality reveals itself in her devotees' rapidly changing encounters with local and far from local players, powers, and ideas. These include invading royal forces, colonial forms of knowledge, and more recently the onslaught of modernity, capitalism, tourism, and ecological change. Hadimba has provided her worshipers with discursive, ritual, and ideological arenas within which they reflect on, debate, give meaning to, and sometimes resist these changing realities, and she herself has been transformed in the process. Drawing on diverse ethnographic and textual materials gathered in the region from 2009 to 2017, The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess is rich with myths and tales, accounts of dramatic rituals and festivals, and descriptions of everyday life in the celebrated but remote Kullu Valley. The book employs an interdisciplinary approach to tell the story of Hadimba from the ground up, or rather, from the center out, portraying the goddess in varying contexts that radiate outward from her temple to local, regional, national, and indeed global spheres. The result is an important contribution to the study of Indian village goddesses, lived Hinduism, Himalayan Hinduism, and the rapidly growing field of religion and ecology.
Download or read book Himalayan wanderer written by (Charles Granville) Bruce (Hon., C. G.) and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Himalayan Wanderer With 25 Illustrations including a Portrait written by Charles Granville BRUCE (Hon.) and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fallen Giants written by Maurice Isserman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering in 50 years, the authors offer detailed, original accounts of the most significant climbs since the 1890s, and they compellingly evoke the social and cultural worlds that gave rise to those expeditions.
Download or read book Himalaya A Human History written by Ed Douglas and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magisterial history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures, and adventures among the world’s highest mountains. For centuries, the unique and astonishing geography of the Himalaya has attracted those in search of spiritual and literal elevation: pilgrims, adventurers, and mountaineers seeking to test themselves among the world’s most spectacular and challenging peaks. But far from being wild and barren, the Himalaya has been home to a diversity of indigenous and local cultures, a crucible of world religions, a crossroads for trade, and a meeting point and conflict zone for empires past and present. In this landmark work, nearly two decades in the making, Ed Douglas makes a thrilling case for the Himalaya’s importance in global history and offers a soaring account of life at the "roof of the world." Spanning millennia, from the earliest inhabitants to the present conflicts over Tibet and Everest, Himalaya explores history, culture, climate, geography, and politics. Douglas profiles the great kings of Kathmandu and Nepal; he describes the architects who built the towering white Stupas that distinguish Himalayan architecture; and he traces the flourishing evolution of Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism that brought Himalayan spirituality to the world. He also depicts with great drama the story of how the East India Company grappled for dominance with China’s emperors, how India fought Mao’s Communists, and how mass tourism and ecological transformation are obscuring the bloody legacy of the Cold War. Himalaya is history written on the grandest yet also the most human scale—encompassing geology and genetics, botany and art, and bursting with stories of courage and resourcefulness.
Download or read book Tigers of the Snow written by Jonathan Neale and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-06-29 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After spending almost a year in Nepal and India, Neale presents the true story of tragedy and survival on one of the world's most dangerous mountains and illuminates the gripping history of the Sherpa. 16-page photo insert.
Download or read book Mountaineering Literature written by Jill Neate and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long established as a standard reference work worldwide, this is a thorough bibliography of all mountaineering books that are of practical use to climbers or for reading pleasure or historical interest. Documenting more than 2000 books of mountaineering literature, it also includes nearly 900 climber's guidebooks, a sampling of more than 400 works of mountaineering fiction, plus journals and bibliographies.
Download or read book The land of the Gurkhas or The Himalayan kingdom of Nepal written by W. Brook Northey and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1998 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Himalayan Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ogre written by Doug Scott and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some mountains are high; some mountains are hard. Few are both. On the afternoon of 13 July 1977, having become the first climbers to reach the summit of the Ogre, Doug Scott and Chris Bonington began their long descent. In the minutes that followed, any feeling of success from their achievement would be overwhelmed by the start of a desperate fight for survival. And things would only get worse. Rising to over 7,000 metres in the centre of the Karakoram, the Ogre – Baintha Brakk – is notorious in mountaineering circles as one of the most difficult mountains to climb. First summited by Scott and Bonington in 1977 – on expedition with Paul 'Tut' Braithwaite, Nick Estcourt, Clive Rowland and Mo Anthoine – it waited almost twenty-four years for a second ascent, and a further eleven years for a third. The Ogre , by legendary mountaineer Doug Scott, is a two-part biography of this enigmatic peak: in the first part, Scott has painstakingly researched the geography and history of the mountain; part two is the long overdue and very personal account of his and Bonington's first ascent and their dramatic week-long descent on which Scott suffered two broken legs and Bonington smashed ribs. Using newly discovered diaries, letters and audio tapes, it tells of the heroic and selfless roles played by Clive Rowland and Mo Anthoine. When the desperate climbers finally made it back to base camp, they were to find it abandoned – and themselves still a long way from safety. The Ogre is undoubtedly one of the greatest adventure stories of all time.
Download or read book Fire of Freedom written by Nityananda Swamini Nityananda and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A wonderful story of a modern woman's journey from worldly pursuits - fame, fortune, love - to initiation into an ancient, sacred traditional lineage of Hindu monks. How Jeanette O'Shea becomes Swamini Nityananda on the banks of Ganges in a city where sooner or later all freedom seekers come." Mary Lou (Meya) Miller From a life of privilege, of luxury yachts, Gucci t-shirts and Louis Vuitton handbags, newspaper journalist Jeanette O'Shea left it all for a Himalayan hermitage, and ultimately initiation into the sacred order of Vedic monks. This is a story of the world's most ancient and profound teachings, its teachers and the rare few who come to listen. This is an insight into life as a sadhu, one who leaves everything to plumb the spiritual depths in a bid to know the secrets of the soul.
Download or read book Notes on High Elevation Research written by Donald K. Alford and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Black Cuillin written by Calum Smith and published by Rymour Books. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Cuillin is an exhilarating account of mountaineering in the Isle of Skye and the extraordinary folk who flocked to the 'British Alps'. Not simply a climbing compendium but a social history of the island, its mountains and it's people. ‘ …exhaustively knowledgeable and scintillatingly written… ’ JIM PERRIN 'A major work of research and history―not only of climbing but also of social developments and the significant personalities involved in events surrounding Skye and the Highlands over the last two centuries. A must read for anyone with an interest in the history of the island and Scotland'. DENNIS GRAY
Download or read book Kangchenjunga written by Doug Scott and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world and a notoriously difficult and dangerous mountain to climb. First climbed from the west in 1955 by a British team comprising Joe Brown, George Band, Tony Streather and Norman Hardie, it waited over twenty years for a second ascent. The third ascent, from the north, followed in 1979 by a four-man team including the visionary British alpinist Doug Scott. Completed before his death in 2020, and edited by Catherine Moorehead, Kangchenjunga is Doug Scott's final book. Scott explores the mountain and its varied people – the mountain sits on the border between Nepal and Sikkim in north-east India – before going on to look at Western approaches and early climbing attempts on the mountain. Kangchenjunga was in fact long believed to be the highest mountain in the world, until in the nineteenth century it was demonstrated that Peak XV – Everest – was taller. Out of respect for the beliefs of the Sikkim, no climber has ever set foot on the very top of Kangchenjunga, the sacred summit. Scott's own relationship with the mountain began in 1978, three years after his first British ascent of Everest with Dougal Haston. The assembled team featured some of the greatest mountaineers in history: Scott, Joe Tasker, Peter Boardman and Georges Bettembourg. The plan was for a stripped-down expedition the following spring – minimal Sherpa support, no radios, largely self-financed. It was the first time a mountain of this scale had been attempted by a new and difficult route without the use of oxygen, and with such a small team. Scott, Tasker and Boardman summited on 16 May 1979, further cementing their legends in this golden era. Kangchenjunga is Doug Scott's tribute to this sacred mountain, a paean for a Himalayan giant, written by a giant of Himalayan climbing.
