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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a good compliment to Krakauer's &quot;Into Thin Air.&quot;  Unlike the Krakauer book, which focuses mostly on the climb up Everest in 1996 and tragic events that unfolded there, this book looks at climbing Everest from the Sherpa's perspective.<br/><br/>I found Norgay's explanation of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/861552">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a good read.  It was interestign to get hte perspective of a Sherpa.  Despite being an member of the group, he had a unique insight into the expedition / tragedy from a Sherpa POV. <br/><br/>I learned much about Tenzing Norgay from this book.  He seems an amazing man who was respected and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22816954">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book.  It's hard to pigeonhole this book into one genre.  It's a bio of Tenzig Norgay, reflections of his son, non-fiction about the disasterous season on Mt. Everest, and an intro into Sherpa culture.  This book will have you gripped.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the Sherpa's version of the 1996 climbing disaster on Everest and is a great read to get a different perspective after reading &quot;Into Thin Air&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book weaves the story of the first complete ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and a Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay with a 1996 ascent by Jamling Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa's son.  Also woven into the story is the complex way that Buddhist beliefs interplay with the planning, execution...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45001711">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps only Jamling Tenzing Norgay could have written this book. Touching My Father's Soul, subtitled A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest, is not just any Sherpa's tale, and not just another story of climbing Mount Everest. Jamling Tenzing Norgay is the son of Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa who wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34040915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you liked Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, you should definitely check out Touching My Father's Soul.  Norgay, whose father was the first Sherpa to reach the summit of Mt. Everest, embarks on the same journey during the disastrous 1996 summit attempt.<br/><br/>Norgay's account of the '96 events a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67052846">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started reading this the day before our house burned down so it is a special book to me. Here is why?<br/><br/>Early in the book Norgay speaks of a relative, his grandfather if I remember correctly, and how the man gave up his possessions to live in a hut in the mountains. That was the last thin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36166698">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The insites of sherpa culture and western culture and how they intermingle in the climbing world and the real world was very interesting. Jamling's experiences on Everest in finding his father in his heart and finally being able to understand his father from the adult sense reminded me of the kind o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21316044">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another telling of the 1996 Everest season by the son of first person to summit the mountain in 1953, Tenzing Norgay Sherpa. After Jon Krakauer book, Into Thin Air, the best of the several books of this event.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was happy to go up the mountain with this gentle narrator, whose relationship to buddhism and to his sherpa heritage interested me as much as the climbing stuff.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Norgay was a lead climber in the successful IMAX expedition that rescued several inexperienced climbers from Mt. Everest during the fateful 1996 climbing season chronicled by Jon Krakauer in Into Thin Air.  The author grew up in the shadow of his famous father, the first Sherpa to reach the peak of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33175616">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Everest, from the Sherpa perspective. Jamling is the son of Tenzig Norgay who, along with Edmund Hillary, was the first person to summit Mt. Everest. This is the story of Jamling trying to get in touch with his father's legacy by climbing the mountain himself.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very touching...love reading about accomplishments that are physically and spiritually met - and how that can lead to self awareness. The descriptions of climbing everest are amazing. so maybe I won't climb it but maybe some day can see...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Moving personal account of an attempt to summit Everest during the same deadly climbing season covered by Jon Krakauer in Into Thin Air, written by a son of Tenzig Norgay (the sherpa who climbed with Edmund Hillary). ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like reading about climbing Everest, but what makes this different is that it is from a Sherpa's point of view.  Very interesting.  This really gives insight to the Sherpa life.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent!  Moving account of a real tragedy.  A page-turner that you won't want to put down and won't want to end.  Norgay writes in such a way as to put you on the mountain with him.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Totally amazing book of the life of a sherpa a totally different look at the K2 mountain and the men that hike it, from the view of a native from the country]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[anything you could imagine this book is it, all individuals wonder but few have the courage to take it to the next level]]></body>
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