Stories: Sherpas
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Himalayan Guides Pack Nepal’s Economy to New Heights
The spire of Ama Dablam was lost in clouds when Ang Dawa Sherpa found something even better to look at. We’d been walking at 13,000 feet above sea level, listening to helicopters flying somewhere below us in a sea of fog, when he pointed out the band of Himalayan tahr grazing on a fall-colored mountainside. Bigger than North American...
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Peaks and People: Montana and Nepal Linked by Buddhists, Sherpas and Scholars
Poke a hole through the globe on Nepal and you come out in Montana. And there’s a lot of traffic in that tunnel. From the Garden of One Thousand Buddhas in Arlee to Everest Designs’ clothing warehouse near the banks of the Clark Fork River, to seismographs on the University of Montana campus and the shrinking ice...