Jamling Norgay: Touching my father’s soul
Got Jamling’s book - Touching my father’s soul, which he wrote about his IMAX film Everest expedition with David Breashears in 1996.
Jamling is son of Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa who first reached the summit with Edmund Hillary in 1953.
This book describes the stories of his father ascent to the vertical end of the world and provides information about the society of the Sherpa, the Tibetan Buddhists who help Westerners climb Himalayan mountains since early 20th century.
He also documented the ill-fated 1996 summer climbing season, where both Rob Hall and Scott Fischer were killed after summiting due to unforeseen storm hit the mountain.
Jon Krakauer, who was travelling with Rob Hall’s team in 1996, described the tragedy in his book, Into Thin Air.
Hence, Jamling’s book is a good cross reference to Jon’s one.