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Tigers of the Snow by Jonathan Neale, Little Brown, 338pp, hb, 18.99 [pounds sterling]

Jonathan Neale regards the 1934 German (and Austrian) expedition to Nanga Parbat as a shameful episode in Himalayan mountaineering. And though historians might find much to argue over in the tendentious Tigers of the Snow, Neale has good grounds for presenting it as a brutal turning point in his telling of the Sherpa story. Germany, at the time in thrall to Hitler and a culture of iron...