Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of Life and Death on Mt. Everest by Sherry Ortner.
The book is in Near Fine condition with bright boards with smudges, strong title ink on the straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and strong corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear.
For more than a century, climbers from around the world have journeyed to test themselves on Everest’s treacherous slopes, enlisting the expert aid of the Sherpas who live in the area. Drawing on years of field research in the Himalayas, renowned anthropologist Sherry Ortner presents a compelling account of the evolving relationship between the mountaineers and the Sherpas, a relationship of mutual dependence and cultural conflict played out in an environment of mortal risk.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
