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<p>[QUOTE="willieboyd2, post: 8199171, member: 4910"]Some of the books about the old British mountaineering expeditions to the Himalayas mention the money problems that they had in India, China, and Tibet.</p><p><br /></p><p>The book <i>Into the Silence - The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest</i> by Wade Davis, published in 2011, is about the three British mountaineering expeditions in 1921, 1922, and 1924 to Tibet whose purpose was to climb Mount Everest. All three expeditions failed to climb the mountain and the last one resulted in the deaths of two of the climbers, Mallory and Irvine.</p><p><br /></p><p>The British had to use Tibetan coins to pay the Sherpa porters carrying supplies and the Tibetan money types would be changed from time to time.</p><p><br /></p><p>This I felt was interesting:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>Some Tibetans opposed the expeditions for religious reasons and some wondered why the British were trying to do something so dangerous to themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>In Tibetan, there is no word for a mountain summit; the very place the British so avidly sought, their highest goal, did not even exist in the language of their Sherpa porters.</p><p><br /></p><p>Among the "Tigers", men handpicked by Norton and Bruce [expedition leaders] for the most difficult work at the highest elevations, there were many who believed that the British were actually searching for treasure a golden statue of a cow, perhaps a yak, rumored to reside at the highest point, which they would pillage and <b>melt down into coins</b>.</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="willieboyd2, post: 8199171, member: 4910"]Some of the books about the old British mountaineering expeditions to the Himalayas mention the money problems that they had in India, China, and Tibet. The book [I]Into the Silence - The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest[/I] by Wade Davis, published in 2011, is about the three British mountaineering expeditions in 1921, 1922, and 1924 to Tibet whose purpose was to climb Mount Everest. All three expeditions failed to climb the mountain and the last one resulted in the deaths of two of the climbers, Mallory and Irvine. The British had to use Tibetan coins to pay the Sherpa porters carrying supplies and the Tibetan money types would be changed from time to time. This I felt was interesting: [INDENT]Some Tibetans opposed the expeditions for religious reasons and some wondered why the British were trying to do something so dangerous to themselves. In Tibetan, there is no word for a mountain summit; the very place the British so avidly sought, their highest goal, did not even exist in the language of their Sherpa porters. Among the "Tigers", men handpicked by Norton and Bruce [expedition leaders] for the most difficult work at the highest elevations, there were many who believed that the British were actually searching for treasure a golden statue of a cow, perhaps a yak, rumored to reside at the highest point, which they would pillage and [B]melt down into coins[/B].[/INDENT] :)[/QUOTE]
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