Book description
A book of adventure, wisdom and spiritual enlightenment.
Touching My Father's Soul recounts Tenzing's son, Jamling
Norgay's treacherous climb to the world's most forbidding summit. As
retold in Krakauer's Into This Air, the 1996 IMAX climbing
expedition collided with tragedy. As the climb unfolds so too does
Norgay's inner journey. His desire to finally stand alongside his
father's soul on the summit of Everest is realised, as is an
understanding of his family's Sherpa history and a realisation of the
power and significance of the Himalayas. Beautifully repackaged for
the paperback edition, this is a classic.
Jamling Tenzing Norgay is the son of famed mountaineer Tenzing
Norgay, who climbed Everest in 1953 with Sir Edmund Hillary. Jamling is
also the star of the IMAX film
Everest,
and lives in Nepal. Broughton Coburn is the author of the National
Geographic Society book
Everest: Mountain Without Mercy
. Coburn has lived in Nepal for 25 years and has a deep knowledge of
Himalayan culture and Tibetan Buddhism.
