Summitting Mount Everest is a much-lauded feat. Sherpa: Stories of Life and Death from the Forgotten Guardians of Everest by Ankit Babu Adhikari and Pradeep Bashyal keeps the reader’s focus firmly on the men who are “the climbers’ weather experts, technicians, medics… and anything else needed for survival.” Right from the first chapter, the authors plunge into what it’s like …
