Keeper Of The Mountains (39 page)

Simpson, Colin.
Kathmandu
. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1976.

Suyin, Han.
The Mountain Is Young
. London: Jonathan Cape, 1958.

Tenzing, Tashi.
Tenzing Norgay and the Sherpas of Everest
. Camden, Me.: Ragged Mountain Press, 2001.

Venables, Stephen.
Everest: Kangshung Face
. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989.

——.
Everest: Summit of Achievement
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

Webster, Ed.
Snow in the Kingdom: My Storm Years on Everest
. South Freeport, Me.: Mountain Imagery, 2000.

Wielicki, Krzysztof.
Crown of the Himalaya: 14 × 8000.
Kraków: Wydawnictwo ATI, 1997

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Abel, Elie
55
,
66
,
68

Abu Reish, Mahmoud
61

Adams, Barbara
78
,
94
,
104
,
131
,
132

Adventure Consultants
196

Agence France-Presse
111

Agnew, Spiro, U.S. vice-president
98

Aleppo, Syria
57

al-Said, Nuri, Iraq premier
57
,
58

Ama Dablam
81
,
124
,
216
,
220

American Alpine Club
231
,
235

American Alpine Journal
99
,
100
,
224

Amman, Jordan
61

Anderson, Robert
161

Anker, Conrad
15
,
202
,
207

Annapurna
91
,
104
,
121
,
234

1970 South Face expedition
105

2002 traverse by Lafaille and Iñurrategi
224

Annapurna Hotel
141

Annapurna
I
140
,
184
,
188
,
202

1978 all-women expedition
122

1992 Béghin and Lafaille summit attempt
184

1997 South Face ascent by Boukreev
202

Annapurna
IV
182

Aqaba, Jordan
62

Arab Nationalism, 1958
62

Arsentiev, Sergei and Francys
202
,
203

Aryaghat
221

Asch, Sholem
61

Aufschnaiter, Peter
79

Babanov, Valeri
215
,
224

Bagmati River
113
,
170
,
222

Bahadur Bhawan
74

Ball, Gary
165

Batard, Marc
163
,
203

Baween
73

Beckwith, Christian
224
,
236

Béghin, Pierre
134
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140
,
184
,
185

Belak-Å rauf, Stane
212

Belgrade, Yugoslavia
48
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55

Bell, Gertrude
56
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57
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62

Beni Bazaar, Nepal
229

Berlin, Germany
49

Bhadgaon, Nepal
71

Bianchi, Marco
188

Bishop, Barry
84
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85
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86

Bista, Kirtinidhi, Nepalese prime minister
96

Blum, Arlene
121

Blum, Dick
134

Boardman, Peter
116
,
122
,
137

Bobaye
233

Bodhnath, Nepal
71

Bonington, Chris
81
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104
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108
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109
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116
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117
,
136
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137
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139
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185

Boukreev, Anatoli
26
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167
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197
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201
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202

Boysen, Martin
104
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116

Bradey, Lydia
164
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165
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166
,
188

Breashears, David
28
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128
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134
,
237

Brice, Russell
13
,
172
,
211

Brown, Michael
214
,
217

Buhler, Carlos
101
,
238

meets Elizabeth for the first time
14

Bulganin, Nikolai
53

Burke, Mick
105
,
108
,
116

Cairo, Egypt
59

Carsolio, Carlos
184
,
189
,
198

Carter, Ad
231

Carter, Jimmy, U.S. president
94
,
141

Česen, Tomo
167
,
175
–
177
,
211

Chamoux, Benoît
191

Cheney, Mike
100
,
144

Chhiri, Babu
216
,
228

Chhiri, Dawa
215

Child, Greg
15
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28
,
166
,
185

Chivas Regal
227

Choegyal (née van Greisen), Lisa
93
,
134

Cholatse

1982 American ascent
135

Cho Oyu
116
,
163
,
168
,
186
,
190

1989 battle between Belgians and South Koreans
168

Christie, Agatha
104

Chuldim
28

Cichy, Leszek
125

Clarbrough, Mal
239

Clinton, Hillary
94

Clough, Ian
105

Coapman, John
92

Coburn, Broughton

Elizabeth's relationship with Himalayan Trust and climbers
130

Crouse, Bill
238

Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal
220

massacre of royal family
222

Crown Prince Paras of Nepal
226

Cultural Revolution
89

Czechoslovakia
164

Czok, Andrzej
126

Damascus, Syria

1958 plebicite
58

David-Néel, Alexandra
56

De Stefani, Fausto
195

Devi, Nanda
86

de Zwart, Milja
200

Dhaulagiri
91
,
188
,
189
,
211
,
233
,
234

1999 South Face ascent by Humar
212

Dhaulagiri
I
99
,
110
,
138
,
180

1973 American expedition
110

1996 East Face climb by Vos
200

Dickinson, Leo
16
,
209

Diemberger, Kurt
29
,
138
,
139
,
214

Dinesen, Isak
56

Dixit, Kunda
230
,
232

Dorje, Pemba
228

May 20-21, 2004, Everest ascent
21
,
29

Douglas, Ed
15
,
239

Duke of Argyll
227

Dunn, Cyril
66

Dyhrenfurth, Hettie
192

Dyhrenfurth, Norman
84
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105
,
106

Edwards, Jim
92
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93
,
141

El Amin, Mamoun
50
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51

es Sabbah, Sheikh Abdullah Mubarak, Kuwaiti deputy ruler
63

Estcourt, Nick
105
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108

Everest
105
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110
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120
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125
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140
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181
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187
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188
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195
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198
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203
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204
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216
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234

1963 American Mount Everest Expedition
86

1971 International Himalayan Expedition
106

1972 First Southwest Face expedition
108

1972 Second Southwest Face expedition
109

1973 Italian Everest expedition
109

1975 all-women Japanese expedition
115

1975 British Everest Southwest Face Expedition
117

1978 attempt without bottled oxygen
121

1979-80 Polish winter ascent
125

1979 Yugoslav West Ridge expedition
122

1980 Messner solo
126

1980 Polish South Pillar route
126

1981 American Kangshung Face route
135

1982 American Great Couloir route
137

1982 British Northeast Ridge route
137

1986 North Face
140

1988 British–American–Canadian expedition
162

1988 Chinese-Japanese-Nepalese Friendship Expedition
161
,
162

1988 Czech Southwest Face summit and tragedy
163

1988 New Zealand expedition; Lydia Bradey summit
166

1993 summit attempt of Pasang Lhamu Sherpa
186

1996 commercial guiding disaster
197

1996 South African expedition
198

1997 ascent by Tashi Tenzing
202

1998 Arsentiev tragedy
203

1998 speed ascent by Sherpa Kaji
203

2003 50th anniversary of first summit
229

Batard speed climb
163

outstanding climbs according to Elizabeth
233

Patscheider speed climb
163

Everett, Boyd
99

February, Ed
197

Finland
50

Fischer, Scott
196
,
197

Fortune
magazine
44
,
45
,
97

Four Against Everest
83

Frank, Ralph
205

Friedberg, Judy
48
,
52
,
63

Frost, Tom
105

Furth, Albert
69

Gandhi, Indira, Indian prime minister
109

Gaurishankar
89
,
122

1979 summit by John Roskelley and Dorje Sherpa
123

Gelu, Lhakpa
228

Gokyo Valley
135

Golden Age of Polish mountaineering
126

Gomulka, Wladyslaw
52

Gore, Amanda (maternal grandmother)
31

Gore, Edward (maternal grandfather)
31

Gray, Dennis
88

Gresham, Bill
84

Griffin, Lindsay
225
,
236

Grošelj, Viktor
122
,
176

Gustafsson, Veikka
188

Habeler, Peter
120
,
127

Hagen, Toni
79

Hahn, Dave
26
,
182
,
203
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204
,
208

Hajzer, Artur
140

Hall, Rob
164
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185
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188
,
196
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197

Hargreaves, Alison
188

Haston, Dougal
105
,
108
,
116

Hawley, Ann (sister-in-law)
46

Hawley, Elizabeth
129
,
139
,
188

1957 travels to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
55

1958 travels to Turkey and the Middle East
63

1959 travels to South and Southeast Asia
68

1973 Japanese expedition scoop
111

1975 Ministry of Tourism ban on her reporting
111
,
120

1985 press accreditation denied
141
,
142

1996 reporting on Everest disasters
198

1999 discovery of Mallory's body
208

20th anniversary of Junko Tabei's Everest ascent
192

American Alpine Club Literary Award
231

apartment in Kathmandu
72

appearance of
23

application to Ford Foundation Foreign Area Training Fellowship
70

application to
USIA
69
,
70

arrangement with Knickerbocker Foundation
70
,
75

arrangement with Reuters
83
,
85
,
105

arrangement with Time Inc.
70
,
75
,
77
,
82

at
Fortune
45
,
47
,
48
,
51

at
Life
69

birthdate
31

character of
14
,
20
,
28
,
44
,
239

childhood polio
33

commercial and guided climbing in the Himalaya
180

comparison with Audrey Salkeld
209

covering Nepal's first election
66

criticism of
214
,
225

death of mother, Florelle
171

early interest in international affairs
38

early travels
46
,
51

early work on mountaineering database with Richard Salisbury
183

early years
35

first impression of Kathmandu
65

friendship with Barbara Adams
79
,
104

friendship with Colonel Jimmy Roberts
91
,
100

friendship with Micky Weatherall
78

friendship with Professor Preston Slosson
38