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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $68, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXNPL39)		  
Spectrum Guide to Nepal  •  Camerapix
GUIDEBOOK •  2000 •  PAPER  • 364 PAGES
A comprehensive guide to the country, its people, history, culture and geography, featuring excellent maps and 200 color photographs. (NPL27, $22.95)		   Spectrum Guide to Nepal
Everest, A Trekker's Guide  •  Kev Reynolds
GUIDEBOOK •  2005 •  PAPER  • 255 PAGES
A brief pocket guide to seven treks in the Everest region (including one in Tibet) with sketch maps, good general information and a few photographs. (NPL45, $22.95)		   Everest, A Trekker's Guide
Essential Tibetan Buddhism  •  Robert Thurman
RELIGION •  1996 •  PAPER  • 317 PAGES
A collection of recently translated texts by the foremost Western scholar of Tibetan Buddhism. Thurman has chosen well from that tradition's sacred literature and helpfully includes suggested further reading, explanatory notes and a directory of sacred sites. (TBT15, $14.99)		   Essential Tibetan Buddhism
Everest Base Camp, Nepal Map  •  National Geographic
2004 •  MAP
A durable, folded topographic map for treks from Lukla through Sagarmatha National Park to Everest Base Camp, at a scale of 1:50,000. It features contour lines, well-marked trails, campsites and other notable features. The reverse features a map of Nepal and an inset of Kathmandu. Two Sides. 24x36 inches. (HML77, $11.95)		   Everest Base Camp, Nepal Map



Also Recommended

Khumbu Himal (Everest) Map  •  Nelles    •  An trekkers map of the Mt. Everest region. (NPL33, $13.95)
 		  
Khumbu Trekking Map  •  Trails Illustrated    •  This National Geographic map of Sargmatha National Park and Everest (1:125,000) includes 100-meter contour lines, index, a city map of Kathmandu and overview map of Nepal. (NPL47, $11.99)
 		  
Mt. Everest  •  National Geographic    •  A gloriously detailed, birds-eye view of Everest by the cartographers at National Geographic. (NPL36, $19.99)
 		  
Nepal Map  •  Nelles    •  A double-sided map at a scale of 1:500,000, with insets of Kathmandu City and Kathmandu Valley. (NPL01, $13.95)
 		  
Everest, Summit of the World  •  Harry Kikstra   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An Illustrated pocket guide for climbers with detailed descriptions of approaches from both Tibet and Nepal, step-by-step detail and maps. (NPL67, $16.95)
 		  
Trekking in the Everest Region  •  Jamie McGuinness   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact guide to treks in the Everest region featuring route maps, village plans and concise information on preparations. Fifth Edition (NPL31, $22.95)
 		  
Life and Death on Mt. Everest, Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering  •  Sherry B. Ortner   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A vividly written, scholarly study of the relationship between the Sherpas and the mountaineers who come to "conquer" the Himalayas. (TBT33, $29.95)
 		  
Sherpas, Reflections on Change in Himalayan Nepal  •  James Fisher   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A detailed study of the change that mountaineering brought to Sherpa society. (NPL13, $27.95)
 		  
The Violet Shyness of Their Eyes  •  Barbara J. Scot   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A heartfelt portrait of the Nepalese people and culture, resulting from the author's year teaching in Nepal. An excellent memoirist, Scot combines personal observation, thoughtful commentary and warmth. (HML14, $16.95)
 		  
Annapurna, The Epic Account of a Himalayan Conquest and its Harrowing Aftermath  •  Maurice Herzog   • EXPLORATION • FAVORITE  •  Conrad Anker provides a new foreword for this new 60th-anniversary edition of Maurice Herzog's classic, dictated from his hospital bed in Paris. French minister of youth and sport in the 1960s and former mayor of Chamonix, Herzog recovered nicely (he's 102 in 2011). (HML07, $16.95)
 		  
Eric Shipton, The Six Mountain Travel Books  •  Eric Shipton   • EXPLORATION  •  Shipton's extraordinary adventures in the mountains of the Himalayas, East Africa, Central Asia and Patagonia, now in paper. (EXP12, $34.95)
 		  
Everest  •  David Breashears   • EXPLORATION  •  The stunning IMAX film of an Everest expedition by David Breashears and his team, filmed at the same time as the 1996 disaster recounted in John Krakauer's "Into Thin Air." DVD format. (HML67, $19.99)
 		  
High Adventure  •  Sir Edmund Hillary   • EXPLORATION  •  A classic of 20th-century mountaineering, this 50th anniversary edition of young Hillary's personal account of his historic ascent of Everest, written the heady days after the celebrated climb, includes a new preface by the author. With black-and-white photos. Hillary modestly attributes his success to "a goodly share of imagination and plenty of energy." (NPL48, $19.95)
 		  
Into Thin Air, A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster  •  Jon Krakauer   • EXPLORATION  •  In this bestseller, climber and journalist Krakauer reconstructs a minute-by-minute account of what went wrong on the great mountain in 1996. (HML13, $15.00)
 		  
No Shortcuts to the Top, Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks  •  Ed Viesturs   • EXPLORATION  •  An exhilarating account of mountaineering by the first American to scale the world's 14 peaks that over 8,000 meters high, without the aid of bottled oxygen. (EXP45, $14.99)
 		  
The Climb, Tragic Ambitions on Everest  •  Anatoli Boukreev   • EXPLORATION  •  An eyewitness account of the 1996 tragedy by Russian mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev. (HML29, $7.99)
 		  
The Crystal Horizon  •  Reinhold Messner  •  Jill Neate  •  Audrey Salkeld   • EXPLORATION  •  Messner's account of the first successful solo ascent of Everest, which he accomplished without the aid of supplemental oxygen in 1980. (HML69, $29.95)
 		  
The Snow Leopard  •  Peter Matthiessen   • EXPLORATION • FAVORITE  •  The most perceptive, acutely observed and personal of all his books, Matthiessen's account of a five-week journey through Nepal with naturalist George Schaller combines their quest for the elusive cat with a moving introduction to Buddhism and the people and culture of the Himalayas. (NPL03, $16.00)
 		  
Touching My Father's Soul, A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest  •  Jamling Tenzing Norgay  •  Broughton Coburn  •  Dalai Lama   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A personal account of the business of Everest, the 1996 IMAX Expedition and, most significantly, of a son who is grappling with the legacy of a famous father. (NPL42, $15.99)
 		  
Himalayan Voices, An Introduction to Modern Nepali Literature  •  Michael Hutt   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A collection of 20th-century Nepali poetry and short fiction, much of it translated into English for the first time. This anthology offers insight into Nepal's literary traditions, society and culture. (HML35, $28.95)
 		  
The Ascent of Rum Doodle  •  W. E. Bowman   • LITERATURE  •  This hilarious send-up of the great British mountaineers, originally published in 1956, is hardly handicapped by the fact that Bowman never set foot in the Himalayas. (HML55, $15.95)
 		  
Photographic Guide to Birds of the Himalayas  •  Bikram Grewal   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A pocket guide to 250 birds found from the foothills up to high elevations ranging from the Hindu Kush and Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh in the Eastern Himalayas. With brief descriptive information, maps and 260 full-color illustrations. (HML31, $15.95)
 		  
 
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