Loomis: Himalayan Sherpa Collection: Rivendell Lodge-Deboche 5, Jobs and Religion
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| Description: | In a mix of English and Sherpa each person describes their job and what their parents did; one was a farmer, another was a lama; changes in jobs from their parents generations to the current generation; why Tenzing decided to be a lodge owner instead of a lama; Tenzing explains the role Buddhism plays in his life today. |
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| Created: | 2012-05-29 12:58 | ||||||||||
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| Collection: | World Oral Literature Project Collections | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge | ||||||||||
| Copyright: | World Oral Literature Project | ||||||||||
| Language: | eng (English) | ||||||||||
| Keywords: | sherpa; everest; trekking; yak; herding; | ||||||||||
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| Abstract: | These recordings were made on a trek in the spring of 2011 up to Mount Everest Base Camp. The recordings span a wide variety of topics from making and drinking chang to the work of Mount Everest's 'ice fall doctors'. |
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