It was pretty big news when 3 Filipinas climbed Everest in 2007.
Why don't sherpas get recognition? Funny, I think Tenzing Norgay is as famous as Edmund Hillary.
Ernie
· 9 months ago
@Jason: Haha. Nowadays it's like Sherpas are like the tour guides of Everest. It's as if they walk up every second Tuesday of the month, weather permitting.
Jim
· 9 months ago
Edmund Hillary guided Tenzing Norgay as much as the other way around, as neither had been up there before. Both of them relied on two white boys who trailblazed and cached oxygen earlier on. Isn't Tenzing Norgay as famous as Hillary these days? In Norgay's home territory, he's more famous, right?
The whole point of sending a journalist like Krakauer to Everest was to be guided. He could make it on his own, weather permitting, but what would be the point in that. An Asian female froze to death on that trip due to her guides' incompetence, intra-Sherpa conflict and her relatively small body mass when she and others huddled outside at a relatively low altitude.
Is Bear Grylls on the record as opposing female mountain climbing or something?
Those women were all guided by a team of male sherpa. The expedition was designed to promote Tibetan tourism.
Aside from that...
Moye
· 9 months ago
As someone who doesn't follow mountain climbing very closely, I'll say that I've read more about Hillary than Norgay so I personally think his accomplishment is known more than the other. But I could be totally wrong.
I only mentioned Bear Grylls because of his fake survival guide show where he lists climbing Mount Everest as one of his accomplishments.
And I was impressed with the diversity of the group, which consisted of a journalist, former model and a washerwoman so I think their message of showing that hard work for any woman, regardless of her background and occupation, can lead to success is uplifting.
Jim
· 9 months ago
Fair enough.
Bear is quite the self-promoter. His show is quite hokey, of course. He actually did climb Everest at a relatively young age.
Point taken...
Tracy
· 9 months ago
From what I can tell, I think David Breashears has worked closely with and paid tribute/homage to many of the Sherpa staff and partners in his film making.
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Why don't sherpas get recognition? Funny, I think Tenzing Norgay is as famous as Edmund Hillary.
The whole point of sending a journalist like Krakauer to Everest was to be guided. He could make it on his own, weather permitting, but what would be the point in that. An Asian female froze to death on that trip due to her guides' incompetence, intra-Sherpa conflict and her relatively small body mass when she and others huddled outside at a relatively low altitude.
Is Bear Grylls on the record as opposing female mountain climbing or something?
Those women were all guided by a team of male sherpa. The expedition was designed to promote Tibetan tourism.
Aside from that...
I only mentioned Bear Grylls because of his fake survival guide show where he lists climbing Mount Everest as one of his accomplishments.
And I was impressed with the diversity of the group, which consisted of a journalist, former model and a washerwoman so I think their message of showing that hard work for any woman, regardless of her background and occupation, can lead to success is uplifting.
Bear is quite the self-promoter. His show is quite hokey, of course. He actually did climb Everest at a relatively young age.
Point taken...