Loomis: Himalayan Sherpa Collection: Ice Fall Doctors 6, Long Conversation

Duration: 22 mins 18 secs
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Description: Ang Nima and Ang Kami discuss different elements of their lives as Ice Fall Doctors: what they like about the job; safety; what their wives think of the work; religion and how it keeps them safe in the ice; spirits in the Icefall and the surrounding mountains and how much longer they expect to do the job. (Some of the conversation is in English. Later on it is translated from Nepali into English.)
 
Created: 2012-05-18 11:56
Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: World Oral Literature Project
Language: eng (English)
Keywords: sherpa; everest; trekking; yak; herding;
Credits:
Actor:  Ang Kami
Actor:  Ang Nima
Director:  Molly Loomis
 
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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