After Everest: Tiger of the Snows on Top of the World

by Tenzing Norgay

On 29 May 1953 Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary conquered Everest. Before it had claimed the lives of dozens of climbers, including George Leigh Mallory in 1924. Norgay, the descendant of generations of yak herders, was destined to become a monk, but his love for the mountains was that much stronger. He had but one dream, despite seven sherpas dying in 1922, to conquer Everest. For thirty years expeditions had been struggling to scale its fiendishly difficult icy slopes until he and Hillary finally succeeded.

224 pages, Paperback

Published May 21, 2024

About the author

Mountaineer known for the first ascent of Mount Everest, alongside Sir Edmund Hillary.

Reviews

[Ryan Drewes · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sums up the 20 years after his ascent of Everest. Seems like the book was just written to provide him with some income. Interesting read at points, but found some parts to be very boring. Definitely not as good as the '55 book in which he details his life and the actual ascent up Everest.