Himalaya (1999)
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Love affair with Himalaya
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Himalaya
$16.16 Shot and set in the mountainous Central Asian country of Nepal, director Eric Valli's acclaimed drama follows the conflict that erupts among the residents of a remote village when the local patriarch's eldest son, charged with leading an annual yak caravan across the Himalayas for needed supplies, is killed. An ambitious villager defiantly leads the caravan out, but the dead man's distrustful fath... |
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The Lost Explorer : Finding Mallory On Mount Everest
$19.64 Recounts the disappearance of George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Irvine on Mount Everest in 1924 and the recent discovery of Mallory's remains. This is the adventure story of the year, how Conrad Anker found the body of George Mallory on Mount Everest, casting an entirely new light on the mystery of the explorer who may have conquered Everest seventy-five years ago.... |
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Ultimate High: My Everest Odyssey
$15.94 Why just climb Everest when you can climb it without supplemental oxygen? Why just climb it without oxygen when you can climb it alone? And why fly to Nepal to climb Everest when you can bicycle all the way there? Apparently, questions such as these occurred to Göran Kropp, a Swede with a taste for adventure and a desire for the Ultimate High. In October 1995, Kropp set out from Sweden with... |
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Detectives on Everest: The 2001 Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition
$19.93 AMERICAN ALPINE JOURNAL 2004... |