Comments | arunshanbhag: Sherpas get their due.

arunshanbhag

Sherpas get their due.

May 16, 2007 09:57

The NY Times reports:
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- A veteran Sherpa guide (Apa Sherpa) scaled Mount Everest for a record 17th time Wednesday, beating his own previous record, mountaineering officials said.
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Apa was leading a team calling themselves the Super Sherpas on a charity climb to raise education funds for children of the Nepalese mountain ( Read more... )

sherpa, nepal

Comments 7

rileen May 16 2007, 16:39:28 UTC

Heart warming :-)

arunshanbhag May 16 2007, 19:41:57 UTC

wonderful!
after our KM tour, I have a renewed appreciations for Sherpas!

sabdapranam May 16 2007, 17:46:53 UTC

Go Sherpas! I'm glad Tenzing Norgay at least has some public monuments named after him, but they are in Siliguri (not the highest profile place on earth).

arunshanbhag May 16 2007, 19:41:06 UTC

WoW! How did you find out about Siliguri? What a raw deal! neways atleast now they have their own publicists and working to better their own people!
thanks for sharing

tingles_tangles May 16 2007, 19:23:49 UTC

Go Sherpas!. Going along with the mountaineering suject have you watched/read Into thin air ?. thats a nice one.

arunshanbhag May 16 2007, 19:39:44 UTC

Saw that on IMAX when it first came out; and read the book too! Simply awesome.
btw, one of the Sherpa support staff for "Into Thin Air" was also a Sherpa leader of our group when we went to Kailash Manasarovar last year! :-)) Wonderful folks!

tingles_tangles May 16 2007, 22:30:57 UTC

Neat!The one i saw on Imax was the Mt Everest one. Your trip seems to be a helluva amazing one. beautiful pics!