Two Sherpas

Sebastián Martinez Daniell, Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Jennifer Croft

• Publisher: Charco Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781913867416
• eBook ISBN: 9781913867423
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

Mount Everest, and all it means to royalty, explorers, imperialists, and two sherpas, perched on a cliffside, waiting for a man on the ledge below to move.

A British climber has fallen from a cliffside in Nepal, and lies inert on a ledge below. Two sherpas kneel at the edge, stand, exchange the odd word, waiting for him to move, to make a decision, to descend. In those minutes, the world opens up to Kathmandu, a sun-bleached beach town on another continent, and the pages of Julius Caesar. Mountaineering, colonialism, obligation—in Sebastián Martínez Daniell's effortless prose each breath is crystalline, and the whole world is visible from here.

Table of contents

• Two Sherpas
• One
• Two
• Three
• People from the East
• Five
• Six
• Seven
• Versions of Buddhism
• Nine
• Ten
• Eleven
• Twelve
• Wakefulness
• Fourteen
• Fifteen
• Afghan greyhounds, Ankara cats
• Seventeen
• Eighteen
• Nineteen
• Parasols
• Twenty-One
• Twenty-Two
• Melting
• Twenty-Four
• Twenty-Five
• Light Bulbs
• Lichen
• Twenty-Eight
• Outstanding
• Thirty
• The Farm
• Thirty-Two
• Thirty-Three
• Thirty-Four
• Thirty-Five
• Thirty-Six
• Geological Pioneers
• Thirty-Eight
• Thirty-Nine
• Error
• Kan runu
• Forty-Two
• Forty-Three
• Lady Houston
• The Young Sherpa
• The Snow Is the Postcard
• Forty-Seven
• Forty-Eight
• Dragonfly
• Zenithal
• Fifty-One
• Fifty-Two
• Out of Sight
• Fifty-Four
• But
• Fifty-Six
• Fifty-Seven
• Fifty-Eight
• Fifty-Nine
• Sixty
• Summit
• Sixty-Two
• The Pledge
• Sixty-Four
• Why the Mountain?
• Sixty-Six
• Heathrow
• Sixty-Eight
• Sixty-Nine
• Seventy
• Strike
• The Dark of Day
• Seventy-Three
• Seventy-Four
• Seventy-Five
• Seventy-Six
• Digestion
• Seventy-Eight
• The Old Sherpa
• Eighty
• Eighty-One
• Eighty-Two
• Eighty-Three
• To Tell the Truth
• Eighty-Five
• Tactics
• Impressionist Painters
• Eighty-Eight
• Eighty-Nine
• Ninety
• Ninety-One
• A Woman Nurses her Child
• Roman Thesis
• Ninety-Four
• Ninety-Five
• Yaks
• Ninety-Seven
• Our Kings
• Ninety-Nine
• One Hundred
• Translator’s Acknowledgments