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Dawa Steven Sherpa: Everest belongs to all of us
Mount Sherpa. That would be a better suited name for the highest mountain of the world, which instead was named after Sir George Everest, a Surveyor-General of India in the 19th century. The history of Mount Everest is also a history of the Sherpas. The „eastern people” who had fled from Tibet to Nepal in earlier times were engaged for the early British expeditions in the 1920s. One of the two climbers who scaled Everest first in 1953 was a Sherpa: Tenzing Norgay. At the latest since commercial climbing was established on Everest sherpas have become indispensable. Without their support most of the clients wouldn’t have any chance to reach the summit.
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27. März 2013 | 12:35
60-years-jubilee, climate change, Dawa Steven Sherpa, Eco Everest expeditions, Mount Everest, Nepal, WWF
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