From my Bookshelf: Everest History - fact, fiction and future . . .
But like a soap opera, episodes of fortitude and resilience abound around Everest. Aside from the weighty biography around the 1996 season t
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Jeannette McGill
- Aug 29, 2020
- 4 min
From my bookshelf: Sherpa's and Survivors
The phrase "supporters club" probably doesn't do adequate justice to the role family and Sherpa's play in our mental freedoms, emotional sup
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Jeannette McGill
- Jul 12, 2020
- 2 min
From my bookshelf: Mountaineering 101
In all honesty the best way to learn about, and improve in mountaineering is to be right there in the outdoors experiencing the various...
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Jeannette McGill
- Jul 12, 2020
- 3 min
From my bookshelf: Everest 1996
Every armchair mountaineer has encountered the writings of the tumultuous 1996 Spring season on Everest. The natural maturation from...
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Jeannette McGill
- Jul 10, 2020
- 2 min
From my bookshelf: South African Reads
Growing up in a South African "seaside lego-land industrial village" (as I saw Port Elizabeth once described in a tourist guide-book);...
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Jeannette McGill
- Jul 2, 2020
- 2 min
Mountain Reading: Coffee Table Visual Inspiration
Here are some of my coffee-table book picks that have travelled around the globe with me
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Jeannette McGill
- Apr 8, 2019
- 2 min
Nepal, Widows and an Everest Expedition worth following ..
In 2004 numerous Nepali men were recruited through KTM agencies for Daoud & Partners to work in a 5 Star hotel in Jordan, but upon...
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