From ‘Native’ Alpine Guides to Foreign ‘Sahibs’ in the Himalayas

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20047653
AutoresPatricia Purtschert (0000-0002-5535-694X, ETH Zurich, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Páginas179-199
Fecha de publicación2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaColonial Switzerland (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137442741_9
OpenAlexW2397742780
ISBN9781137442741
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas19

When Albert Eggler, who led the 1956 Swiss expedition team — the first to climb Lhotse and the second to reach the peak of neighbouring Mount Everest — describes his arrival in Nepal, he does so by way of a historical comparison: ‘When we entered the mountain fastnesses of Thyangboche we were perhaps in a comparable position to that of a party of climbers who in 1856 left Zerrnatt behind them and took up temporary quarters in the hamlet of Zinutt.’1 Evoking the ‘Golden Age of alpinism’, Eggler’s account of mountain climbing in the Himalayas is portrayed as a reenactment of an attempt to ascend the highest peaks of the Alps a hundred years prior. Mountains, landscapes and places converge: the Nepalese village of Thyangboche stands for the small hamlet of Zmutt, which the mountaineers reach after leaving Zermatt. Although he does not mention it by name, Namche Bazaar — the last sizeable town en route to the world’s highest mountain — appears to be Zermatt’s counterpart, thus prompting us to interpret the route to the Matterhorn as the ascent of Lhotse and Everest

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