Tiger of the Snows

work by Tenzing Norgay

Also known as: “Man of Everest”

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"Tiger of the Snows" is the alternate title for the autobiography of Tenzing Norgay, a Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. Co-written with James Ramsey Ullman, the book details Norgay's life and his historic achievement as one of the first two people, along with Edmund Hillary, to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953. The autobiography covers his early life, his extensive experience in mountaineering, and his role in the successful 1953 British Everest expedition. It also touches upon his life after the ascent and his continued dedication to the welfare of the Himalayan peoples.12

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…Everest (1955; also published as Tiger of the Snows), written in collaboration with James Ramsey Ullman, is an autobiography. After Everest (1978), as told to Malcolm Barnes, tells of his travels after the Everest ascent and his directorship of the Field Training Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling, which the Indian…
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…Everest (1955; also published as Tiger of the Snows), written in collaboration with James Ramsey Ullman, is an autobiography. After Everest (1978), as told to Malcolm Barnes, tells of his travels after the Everest ascent and his directorship of the Field Training Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling, which the Indian…
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