Loomis: Himalayan Sherpa Collection: Prakash Adhikari 6, Porters and IPPG
Duration: 1 min 29 secs
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| Description: | Prakash describes porter’s working conditions and what led to the creation of International Porter Protection Agency which has worked to improve working conditions for porters. |
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| Created: | 2012-05-29 14:34 | ||||
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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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