Christiane Fladt

And Death Walks with Them

Above Eight Thousand Metres with Pakistani Porters from Shimshal

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Produktbeschreibung

This book throws light on the uncelebrated lives of some of Pakistan's High-altitude Porters (HAPs), who help mountaineers climb the Pakistan-based high mountain peaks. The book primarily discusses the lives and careers of those HAPs who have summited Pakistan-based eight-thousand-metre peaks.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 142mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780199407385
• ISBN-10: 019940738X
• Artikelnr.: 52960686

Autorenporträt

Christiane Fladt is a mountaineer, teacher, and an adventure enthusiast. She is a teacher of English and Latin languages in Germany, and also a tourist who first came to Pakistan on a mountaineering expedition in 2002. She has authored two books on mountaineering, and this is her first work on Pakistani high-altitude porters (HAPs).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Section One: People and the Landscape of Shimshal
1.1 Shimshal: The Village
1.2 The Mountain People of Shimshal
1.3 Climbing: A Job or a Philosophy?
1.4 The Pakistani Eight-thousand-metre Peaks
1.5 Three Categories and One of His Own
Section Two: The Life Sketches
2.1 Mohammad Ullah
2.2 Qurban Mohammad
2.3 Sarwar Ali
2.4 Meherban Shah
2.5 Farhad Khan
2.6 Hazil (Hasil) Shah
2.7 Amruddin
2.8 Aziz Baig
2.9 Amin Ullah Baig
2.10 Rajab Shah
2.11 Syed Ahmed
2.12 Ezat Ullah Baig
2.13 Sabs Ali
2.14 Meherban Karim
2.15 Yousaf Khan
2.16 Ali Musa
2.17 Jehan Baig
2.18 Farzar Khan
Epilogue
Bibliography