Most Sherpas don't love working as a guide, carrying the hopes and demands of foreigners — and sometimes the foreigners themselves — up and down Mount Everesthttp://nyti.ms/2pbwsFJ
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More conventional jobs, in construction or retail, wouldn’t give them the same money for the same amount of work. But it did not mean they liked it. http://nyti.ms/2zaLJX0 pic.twitter.com/TODt3XXYAO
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In May 2016, Lakpa Sherpa said he recommended that his clients, a group of 4 Indian climbers, turn back as they were running out of time and oxygen http://nyti.ms/2zaLJX0 pic.twitter.com/QCgFCHLcxO
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After they refused to go back, the climbers were eventually abandoned by their guides. Only 1 of the 4 climbers survived. http://nyti.ms/2zaLJX0 pic.twitter.com/cDsGZNQmnm
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