Guardians of Everest: A new book focuses on sherpas who toil at the foothills of the Himalayas
The authors talk about documenting the lives of the community and how they began scaling the sacred ‘Sagarmatha’.
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"There Are Many Sherpas, Not Known To The Outside World, Who Regularly Summit The Mountains" [Interview]
Climate change is making climbing mountains harder and affecting the raising of yaks, considered the lifeline of Sherpa communities.
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'Sherpas' real stories are seldom written': Q&A with authors Ankit Babu Adhikari & Pradeep Bashyal
KATHMANDU – The Sherpa Indigenous community in Nepal has lived in the lap of the world’s tallest mountains for centuries. Ever since Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay and New Zealand climber Edmund Hillary became the first recorded individuals to summit Sagarmatha, the Nepali name for Mount Everest, in 1953, the Indigenous community’s ability to endure treacherous […]
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