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The Abbot of Tengboche Monastery describes the Buddhist culture, oral history, and traditions of the Sherpa people from the Khumbu Valley below Mount Everest. The Revised 4th Edition.

Visitors from many countries come here to see and to climb Chomolungma, Mt. Everest. Often you want to know about the culture of our Sherpa people. Therefore, we have made this little book of cultural information to help you understand our way of life. We originally made this book through the Sherpa Cultural Centre project at Tengboche monastery in Solu-Khumbu district of East Nepal. The Centre has been built because so many people are interested in Sherpa culture and stories. I wanted to make a book about the Sherpa's heritage. Khumbu is changing and people may forget their culture and stories. For all Nepal and Sherpa and Nepali people, we plan to have the school and the cultural centre here for the future.

- Ngawang Tenzin Zangbu

Natural History Handbook for the Wild Side of Everest:

A concise guide to trees, shrubs, birds and mammals of the Eastern Himalaya and Makalu-Barun Area
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This handbook presents some of the great variety of plants and animals living in this spectacular region of globally significant biodiversity.

Recommended Reading List

These books are available for purchase through Amazon.com. Just click on a link, or on an image, to go to that book on the Amazon website. A percentage from any purchase made through our website will benefit the Sherpa Education Fund.

	Fragile Edge: Loss on Everest Maria Coffey
	Coronation Everest Jan Morris
	The High Himalaya Art Wolfe
	The Violet Shyness of Their Eyes: Notes from Nepal Barbara J. Scot
	Everest: The West Ridge Thomas F. Hornbein
	Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond Edmund Hillary, Peter M.D. Steele
	Life and Death on Mt. Everest Sherry B. Ortner
	Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas Vincanne Adams
	Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak Maurice Herzog
	Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the No-So-Far East Pico Iyer
	The Snow Leopard Peter Matthiessen
	Trekking in Nepal: A Traveler's Guide Stephen Bezruchka
	Everest: A Mountaineering History Walt Unswort

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