The Sherpa mountaineer, who had summited Everest 10 times, had been consumed by K2 for decades.
This is like sherpa parenting, as people were calling it back then.
Within the Sherpa community, how are they seen?
How are the Sherpa who do this.
And what a Sherpa could expect to get for taking those risks?
We reached the summit with two Sherpa climbers.
how are they viewed within the larger Sherpa community?
And then I'd say the Sherpa children born today, they're getting educations.
And I should add that Sherpa is a really complex term.
Because people want to hire a Sherpa , and so everybody says they're a Sherpa .
And the people whose lives depend on Sherpa workers say, no, it's just a job description.
That's how much each individual Sherpa will take in.
keeper and the smiling cheerful sherpa tenzing norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary pictured here or the two that made it to
various places this is a Sherpa standing on the summit of Everest in traditional
And for a last name almost all the Sherpas use the name Sherpa .
And so there's a lot of dispute over what a Sherpa is, and a lot of money at stake.
But if you're trekking around and living in Sherpa villages, the power of the dollar goes really far.
we're going to do this ourselves, without Sherpa support.
There's Irene in the center, and two Sherpa teammates.
it's a super sad story the guy's name was niman nurbu Sherpa and he had summoned ever six different times so he's an extremely accomplished
When I arrived in Kathmandu, I learned that almost every Sherpa has one of seven names.
And so tracking down the right person, just figuring out who-- which Pasang Sherpa out of the 20,000 Pasang Sherpas who live
In the seven languages he spoke conversationally, Chhiring Dorje Sherpa talked so quickly it seemed as though each sentence were one long word, punctuated by
'Chhiring was always crazy,' said his father, Ngawang Thundu Sherpa .
A kind of interesting question to me is, among the Sherpa population in general-- not every Sherpa villager does this for a living.
The people who live further from Everest say it's a job description because people want to hire a Sherpa .
Oh, that's per Sherpa .
uh, um, Sherpa , um, monks.
disaster and um we were this picture was taken actually minutes after the Korean fell or the sherpa fell to his death
"Hanging off the face of a cliff, an ice axe the only thing between him and death, a Sherpa climber named Chhiring
Clients occasionally doubted that he was an adult and asked for, quote, 'another Sherpa with more experience than this baby.'
You know, Sherpa 's for example, Sherpa language is a dialect of Tibet, we had a lot of Sherpa ,
OK, look it's like if I-- hey, it's like, if I was born in Nepal, like you, OK, and I wanted to be a Sherpa , or a Gurkha,