Quotes About Sherpas

It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when life in the Khumbu was so much simpler and more picturesque. Most of the people who live in this rugged country seem to have no desire to be severed from the modern world or the untidy flow of human progress. The last thing Sherpas want is to be preserved as specimens in an anthropological museum.

I'm going to repeat that: Without the support of our Sherpas none of us has any chance of climbing the mountain.

The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.

The Sherpas were such a hard-working, good-natured group. Sometimes I thought they'd been born with permanent smiles. Ang Tsering explained their life in simple terms. "Sherpas have no money, but we need no money. We never rich, but life is good to us.

Not all Sherpas are bad. There are a few who are crazy, but the rest are good people.

Climbing Everest is so big now, with so much money involved, and the Sherpas are not stupid. They see this, and they want to take over the business and kick out the westerners. This is a big fight.

I had no idea there'd be so many Sherpas aboard!" exclaimed Miss Simpkins. "I'm not a Sherpa," Nadira said. "I'm a gypsy. " "Oh, my goodness!" said the chaperone.

These guys make a lot of money. Of course it's hard and dangerous work, but Sherpas are the rich people in Nepal. If you make so much money, you can somehow lose reality.