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Peaks and Lamas

Peaks and Lamas

by Marco Pallis

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 448 PAGES

A classic account of mountaineering and Buddhist Tibet, first published in 1949. A British World War I veteran and mountain climber, Pallis writes with great insight about Buddhism and the traditional culture that sustains it in the Himalayas.  (TBT83, $18.00)


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