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Wall Street Journal
6 days ago
- Wall Street Journal
Five Best: Books on Explorers
Everest Grand CircleBy Ned Gillette and Jan Reynolds (1985) 1. My favorite Everest book isn't about reaching the top of the world's tallest mountain. In 'Everest Grand Circle: A Climbing and Skiing Adventure Through Nepal and Tibet,' Ned Gillette and Jan Reynolds recount circumnavigating it—on skis—during two phases, first in Nepal in 1981 followed by Tibet in 1982. Gillette and Ms. Reynolds's 300-mile journey across the roof of the world unspools as an intimate conversation among themselves, the land and the people who live in the shadow of the peak they call 'Chomolungma'—goddess mother of the world. Gillette has a voice that is dry and sharp while Ms. Reynolds is always seeking the light: 'Each morning brought a different kind of beauty, if we were willing to look.' The power of this narrative lies in how the authors' perspectives intertwine, weaving a portrait not so much of what they did, but how it felt to do it, like 'mountain gypsies,' Mr. Gillette wrote in a 1983 essay about the expedition. He and Ms. Reynolds were free 'to rummage through the most magnificent terrain on earth.'
RNZ News
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
Sherpas missions to retrieve climbers from Mt Everest
Everest Dark documents the quest of world-renowned mountaineer Mingma Tsiri Sherpa to retrieve fallen climbers from Everest's Death Zone. Photo: Kyle Sandilands More than 300 climbers have perished attempting to summit the earth's pinnacle, Mount Everest and at least 200 bodies remain on the mountain, frozen where they fell. A third of the dead are Sherpas. Sherpas refer to Everest as "Chomolungma" or "Mother Goddess of the World". They believe the mountain has become angry - that there has been too much death, and the mountain has been desecrated. Now a new movie has documented the quest of world-renowned mountaineer Mingma Tsiri Sherpa, in his life-threatening journey to retrieve fallen climbers from Everest's Death Zone. 'Everest Dark' follows the effort to reclaim the sacred mountain from decades of exploitation. The movie was written, directed and produced by Michael Bodnarchuk and Jereme Watt.
