Summary of Peter Zuckerman & Amanda Padoan's Buried in the Sky

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Chhiring’s first name, Cheerful, was a reflection of his determination. He was always cheerful, and his clients praised his attitude. He was always moving fast, and he couldn’t control the pace. Speed was hardwired into his DNA.
#2 The Sherpa people of Rolwaling Valley are a small ethnicity that inhabit Beding and the other villages of the Rolwaling Valley. They rarely describe themselves this way, preferring to recognize what they have: faith and a self-reliant community.
#3 The legend of Guru Rinpoche and the demons of Rolwaling is a scare tactic used to get visitors to visit the valley more often. The younger generation is less concerned with the apocalypse.
#4 Rolwaling was a beyul, a frontier community that granted amnesty to refugees. It was thought to be guarded by a powerful mountain goddess. The Sherpa people relied on local materials and their own labor to feed and clothe themselves.

Sujets

• Mountaineering

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 24 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669359579
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Peter Zuckerman & Amanda Padoan's Buried in the Sky
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Chhiring’s first name, Cheerful, was a reflection of his determination. He was always cheerful, and his clients praised his attitude. He was always moving fast, and he couldn’t control the pace. Speed was hardwired into his DNA.

#2

The Sherpa people of Rolwaling Valley are a small ethnicity that inhabit Beding and the other villages of the Rolwaling Valley. They rarely describe themselves this way, preferring to recognize what they have: faith and a self-reliant community.

#3

The legend of Guru Rinpoche and the demons of Rolwaling is a scare tactic used to get visitors to visit the valley more often. The younger generation is less concerned with the apocalypse.

#4

Rolwaling was a beyul, a frontier community that granted amnesty to refugees. It was thought to be guarded by a powerful mountain goddess. The Sherpa people relied on local materials and their own labor to feed and clothe themselves.

#5

Chhiring’s childhood was disrupted by death. His sister returned from the fields one afternoon with red blisters crawling up her skin. She suffocated. Another sister was carrying water from the river when a rock dropped off a cliff and crushed her internal organs.

#6

The Sherpa people have a legend about a man named John Roskelley, who attempted to climb Gauri Shankar in 1979. The mountain goddess punished him by taking away his teeth, and he died of despair.

#7

Kathmandu is a city that was built around a Shade Tree. The Hindu god Gorakhnath, like many modern commuters, didn’t respect the right of way. He plowed into a chariot processional, and to avoid embarrassment, he tried to impersonate a human.

#8

The goddess of prosperity, Miyolangsangma, loves to see Sherpas make money. She only occasionally punishes trespassers. Sherpas begin with Everest because it can be climbed without retribution.

#9

Chhiring did not care about the elders’ prophecy that he would fail. He became extremely ambitious, and within a few years, had climbed Everest ten times. He was hired by several different teams to help them on expeditions.

#10

Chhiring’s achievements were noticed by his peers, but critics dismissed him because he was only climbing Everest. They argued that the mountain has fixed lines strung from nearly start to finish, and that Everest is commercial, more a jungle gym for tourists than one of the great climbing challenges.

#11

K2, the second-tallest mountain in the world, is located in the Karakorum mountain range. It is 28,251 feet high, making it the second- tallest mountain on earth. It resembles a prehistoric shark tooth from a distance, but closer in, you can see its striated gneissic rock.

#12

K2 is a much more difficult mountain to climb than Everest. It has all the obstacles of Everest, and more. Its glaciers are riddled with fissures that climbers step on, and if unroped, they disappear. The summit is a death trap for climbers.

#13

The Duke of the Abruzzi was a veteran explorer who had lost four fingertips trying to reach the North Pole. He decided to head for the hills and climb K2. But he never made it above 20,500 feet.

#14

In 1963, four men died trying to climb Mount Everest. The Sherpa people, who were responsible for getting those people to the top, didn’t speak about it for decades.