Everest: Reflections on the Solukhumbu

Contents: Panoramas. Foreword by Sir Chris Bonington. Preface. 1. Reflections on the Solukhumbu. 2. The Himal-No Bird can fly over it. 3. Dumji festival devotions. 4. A short walk in the monsoon-Namche to Phaplu. 5. The legacy of ed Hillary. 6. Sherpa lives-claiming the high ground. 7. Namche Bazar-the Sherpa heartland. 8. The portraits. 

'Mountain tourism, trekking and climbing, has changed sherpa lives since we took "last step" on Everest in 1978. They have become great mountaineers, and today i would like to see Sherpas take over the management of Sagarmatha - it is their mountain. I highly recommend this spectacular tribute to Everest and its valiant people on the centenary of Sir Edmund Hillary's birth.' - Reinhold Messner, mountaineer, writer and filmmaker.