Photographs By Sujoy Das / Text by Lisa Choegyal / Foreword by Sir Chris Bonington / Preface by Dr. Lhakpa Norbu Sherpa

'Mountain tourism, trekking and climbing, has changed sherpa lives since we took "last step" on Everest in 1978. They have become great mountaineers, and today i would like to see Sherpas take over the management of Sagarmatha - it is their mountain. I highly recommend this spectacular tribute to Everest and it valiant people on the centenary of Sir Edmund Hillary's birth.' - Reinhold Messner, mountaineer, writer and filmmaker.