...Melvin G. Marcus Mount Everest. Formation, Population and Exploration of the Everest Region . By Toni Hagen , Günter-Oskar Dyhrenfurth, Cristoph van Fürer-Haimendorf, and Erwin Schneider. Translated by E. Noel Bowman . London : Oxford University Press , 1963 . xiv , 195 . Maps, Plates...

... to the upper storeys if a well-directed catapult attack, to breach the wood-and-plaster walls, had been followed by fire-arrows? Institute of Fine Arts ALEXANDER SOPER Mount Everest. Formation, Population and Exploration of the Everest Region. By TONI HAGEN, GUNTER-OSKAR DYHRENFURTH, CRISTOPH VAN FURER...

.... MALKANI, M. U. Western influence on Sindhi drama. Indian PJSJV. 31 (July 1965), 199-206. GANSSER, AUGUST. Geology of the Himalayas. London, New York, Interscience Publishers, 1964. xv, 289 p. illus., map. (Regional geology series) INDIAN MOUNT EVEREST EXPEDITION, 1965. Indian Mount Everest Expedition...

...Melvin G. Marcus; Beatrice Pitney Lamb Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 COMMUNICATIONS Editor, Journal of Asian Studies: In connection with my review of Mount Everest. Formation, Population and Exploration of the Everest Region in Volume XXIII, pp. 138-139...

... is famous for Sherpas, yaks, treks, and Mount Everest (Sagarmatha). This book deals with them all, from the analytical perspective of cultural geography. Barbara Brower's writing is lucid, descriptive, and nontheoretical. She presents a fine study of mountain life, focused on a cultural tradition of yak...

... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 HIMALAYA 255 HIMALAYA Books ing House [1966] xk, 259 p. 13 plates, maps, plans, tables, diagrs. NARAIN, LAKSHMI. An introduction to Dogri folk HORNBEIN THOMAS F. Everest: the West Ridge; photographs from the American Mount Everest...

... of pastures, the book has a valuable chapter on the impact of tourism on the local economy, and especially the vegetation cover. Foreign climbers in the Everest area have divergent opinions about extent and density of the tree cover. Charles Houston, a visitor prior to the conquest of Everest, does not see...

... of the Himalayas. London, New York, Interscience Publishers, 1964. xv, 289 p. illus., map. (Regional geology series) INDIAN MOUNT EVEREST EXPEDITION, 1965. Indian Mount Everest Expedition, 1965. [New Delhi, Armed Forces Information Officer, Ministry of Defence on behalf of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation...

... against Everest. Engle- KiflLNANi, N . M. Kashmir a study in cultural wood Cliffs, N . J., Prentice-Hall [1956] 161 p. synthesis. March of India 8 (June 1956), 34-37. SHRESTA, CHANDRA BAHADUR. Katmandu guide. LEVI, WERNER. Note on books from Nepal [bib- Coronation ed. 2013 V. S. (1956) [Katmandu...

... that are smothered by quantitative statistics. And anyone who has been fascinated by the "heavy" accounts of Tenzing Norkay, the Sherpa vanquisher of Mount Everest, will value Rand's slight but perceptive sketch. The charmingly written story of marching 900 American mules, representing an outlay of about $3,000 each...

... of the Himalayan region lie in the vicinity of Mt. Everest, which is close to the eastern anchor of the range. This trek took place some 800 miles to the west in the Punjab, to be exact. It started at Manali in the beautiful Kulu Valley, famous for its fruits and its alpine climate. This is where I once started...

..., Hodder & Stoughton [1963] 287 p. illus. HOFTUN, ODD. Fjell-landet Nepal. [Oslo] Forlaget Land og Kirke [1963] 232 p. ilus., map. MORRIS, JOHN. A winter in Nepal. London, R. Hart-Davis, 1963. 232 p. illus. MOUNT EVEREST; formation, population and exploration of the Everest region. [By] Toni Hagen...

.... $4.50. An Innocent on Everest. By RALPH IZZARD. New York: E. P. Ducton & Company, Inc., 1954. 11, 319. Bibliography. $3.75. Political Institutions of Old Burma. By JOHN F. CADY. Data paper, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University. Ithaca, 1954. 8. Mimeographed. Report. Second Annual Conference...

... with the Sherpas as a member of the Thirty others who choose Central Asia must, 1963 American Everest expedition. His respect however, comprise some who include Mon- for this small mountaineering people and thor- golia in this general geographical classifica- ough knowledge of their ways are evident tion. Still...

... name for Everest but the Nepali). Above all else, the book reminds me of Toni Hagen's classic overview Nepal (New York: Rand-McNally, 1961). I first leafed through Hagen's book at the age of thirteen or fourteen, and it was that introduction to Nepal that fueled my imagination and later my travel...

... of the successful summiting of Everest (1953) and the skill of King Mahendra to turn his coronation (1956) into an international event took Nepal out of the books and onto the map as a site to be visited. There are a number of historically structured conjunctures in this tale; disparate events such as the Cold...

... that are smothered by quantitative statistics. And anyone who has been fascinated by the "heavy" accounts of Tenzing Norkay, the Sherpa vanquisher of Mount Everest, will value Rand's slight but perceptive sketch. The charmingly written story of marching 900 American mules, representing an outlay of about $3,000 each...

... of the Himalayas. MR 115 (Jan. 1964), 64-66. CONSIGLIO, PAOLO. Italian expedition to the Punjab Himalayas, 1961. Himalayan journal 24 (1962/63), 86-89. DUBEY, S. N. Mana-Nilgiri expedition, 1962. Himalayan journal 24 (1962/63), 74-80. . Everest, 1962. Himalayan journal 24 (1962/ 63), 21-34. EVANS, DENISE...

... the towering peaks of Gauri Shankar and Everest. Her informants were drawn from a population of two thousand recent D'ing-ri immigrants settled in the Solo-Khumbu who represent twenty percent of D'ing-ri's original population. During the 1960s many D'ing-ri people were shifting back and forth between Nepal...

... publicized portions of the Himalayan region lie in the vicinity of Mt. Everest, which is close to the eastern anchor of the range. This trek took place some 800 miles to the west in the Punjab, to be exact. It started at Manali in the beautiful Kulu Valley, famous for its fruits and its alpine climate...