Loomis: Himalayan Sherpa Collection: Prakash Adhikari 3, Evolution of Technology

Duration: 1 min 37 secs
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Description: Prakash explains how communication technology has evolved in the Himalayan and how that’s enabled the HRA to more quickly provide help to people in the Himalaya.
 
Created: 2012-05-29 14:19
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:  Prakash Adhikari
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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