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Combining stunning photography with personal interviews, photographer Keiser and writer Cynthia Russ Ramsay recount the story of Sir Edmund Hillary’s deep love and respect for the Himalayan Sherpa people - and his work on their behalf for nearly half a century.
The book begins with the perilous ascent itself, which is vividly told in both words and photographs, but unlike other accounts, Sir Edmund Hillary and the People of Everest, takes the conquest of the mountain as the beginning of the story, not its culmination.
For the 33 year old Hillary, climbing Mount Everest was the beginning of a lifelong relationship with the indigenous people whose courage, skill, and generosity of spirit made Himalayan exploration possible: the Sherpas. As he came to know these people and to acknowledge the huge debt he and other Himalayan explorers owed to them, Hillary took on the delicate job of improving their lives without destroying their culture. By all accounts a modest and self-effacing man, Hillary has used the same drive, inner toughness, and tenacity that took him to the top of the world
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