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...Sherpa, more than any other, changed this attitude. "In Tenzing Norgay," writes his grandson, "there developed something more, something almost alien to his race, this was a passion for and an ambition to climb mountains, specifically Everest." As a boy, while he herded yaks on the high mountain pastures with Chomolungma?as Everest is known by the Sherpas?looming above, he had grown to consider it his mountain...
...tool. Well-heeled Chinese tourists from the non-paradisiacal regions of Shenzhen and Beijing have flocked to the two newly declared Shangri-las since their much publicized "discovery." But until last year Yading and Deqin were closed to foreign visitors. Now is your chance to check out these spectacular mountain regions before the growing hordes spoil what's left of their idyllic tranquillity...
...nearby is the stunning Songzanlin Monastery, which could as easily have sprung from Hilton's imagination as that of a Tibetan architect. And Deqin?especially the majestic, glacier-draped Mount Kagbo, Yunnan's highest peak at 6,740 m?lives up to its billing. A steep scramble up the mountain's flank will bring hikers to the foot of the glacier, which lies at the heart of Shangri-la, according to the glossiest of the tourist brochures...
...speed ascent in less than 17 hours, rests on decades of accumulated knowledge and sacrifice by the Sherpas who came before them: men like Tenzing Norgay, who braved the slopes seven times before becoming, along with Edmund Hillary, the first to stand on top of the world's highest mountain, in 1953. As the 50th anniversary of the first ascent approaches, climbing Everest is as much a historic journey as it is a feat of mountaineering...
...Westerners. Now, Tenzing Norgay and the Sherpas of Everest by Tashi Tenzing (McGraw-Hill; 294 pages), grandson of Tenzing Norgay, gives a face to the Sherpa heroes, representatives of "a people whose loyalty and personal integrity have earned them a reputation worldwide to equal that of the great mountain, beneath which they dwell." Many of these so-called tigers of the snow paid the ultimate price: by 1990, 43 of Everest's 115 fatalities were Sherpas...