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Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering (Updated Edition) by Sherry B. Ortner Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 2001 ISBN-10: 0-691-07448-8 / 0691074488 ISBN-13: 978-0-691-07448-1 / 9780691074481 The Sherpas were dead, two more victims of an attempt to scale Mt. Everest. Members of a French climbing expedition, sensitive perhaps about leaving the bodies where they could not be recovered, rolled them off a steep mountain face. One body, however, crashed to a stop near Sherpas on a separate ex |