| Claiming the High Ground |
| PREFACE |
 | INTRODUCTION |
 | PART ONE SHERPA CULTURAL ECOLOGY |
| 1 Sherpa Country |
| 2 A High-Altitude Economy |
| 3 Farming on the Roof of the World |
| 4 Good Country for Yak |
| 5 Sacred Forests and Fuel Wood |
| PART TWO ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE |
| 6 Four Centuries of Agropastoral Change |
| 7 Subsistence, Adaptation, and Environmental Change |
| 8 Local Resource Management: Decline and Persistence |
| 9 From Tibet Trading to the Tourist Trade |
| 10 Tourism, Local Economy, and Environment |
| CONCLUSIONS |
| APPENDIX A MAJOR HIMALAYAN PEAKS |
| APPENDIX B THE SHERPA/TIBETAN CALENDAR |
| APPENDIX C CHRONOLOGY OF KHUMBU HISTORY |
| Notes |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| INDEX |
| • | A |
| • | B |
| • | C |
| • | D |
| • | E |
| • | F |
| • | G |
| • | H |
| • | I |
| • | J |
| • | K |
| • | L |
| • | M |
| • | N |
| • | O |
| • | P |
| • | R |
| • | S |
| • | T |
| • | U |
| • | V |
| • | W |
| • | Y |
| • | Z |