Loomis: Himalayan Sherpa Collection: Dr Kami Sherpa 1, Brain Drain

Loomis: Himalayan Sherpa Collection: Dr Kami Sherpa 2, AMS and Porter Health

Release Date: 4/4/2021

Description: Dr. Kami Sherpa discusses why high altitude mountain sickness seems to be increasing; the health of Rai porters; the future of altitude illness; measures being taken to improve porter education and porter health.

Explicit: No

Loomis: Himalayan Sherpa Collection: Ang Rita 1

Release Date: 4/4/2021

Description: Ang Rita describes in Sherpa difference aspects of his life as a yak herder and yak herding culture. Tape includes native names for yak, birth and death ceremonies; castration practices; differences between Sherpa and Tibetan customs regarding yaks; herding yaks as a child; herding calls; interactions with wolves; grazing practices; concerns about decline of yak herding and the environmental consequences; the future of yak herding; famous yak herders; the effects of horses and zopkios; traditions that are on verge of being lost; what the Khumbu Valley was like when Ang Rita was a child.

Explicit: No

Loomis: Himalayan Sherpa Collection: Pemba Sherpa 1, Attitudes Towards Western Doctors

Release Date: 4/4/2021

Description: Pemba Sherpa describes how Sherpa initially felt being treated by Western doctors.

Explicit: No

Loomis: Himalayan Sherpa Collection: Ice Fall Doctors 1, Ang Gylzen Sherpa

Release Date: 4/4/2021

Description: Ang Gylzen Sherpa talks about his life as an Ice Fall doctor on Mount Everest. He discusses safety, religious practices, group dynamics, organization and the effects of climate change. (The tape pickes up speed and gets more interesting once Ang Gylzen uses the translator.)

Explicit: No

Loomis: Himalayan Sherpa Collection: Lakpa Norbu 1, Loss of Language

Release Date: 4/4/2021

Description: Lakpa Norbu Sherpa discusses some of the differences in Sherpa dialect; how an increasing number of Sherpa are only speaking and learning Nepali; how his children’s inability to speak Sherpa makes him feel.

Explicit: No

Sherpa Sansar

Release Date: 9/4/2020

Authors: Sherpa Sansar

Description: Welcome to Sherpa Sansar, where amazing things about Sherpa Community can be heard.

Explicit: No

Loomis: Himalayan Sherpa Collection: Ice Fall Doctors 2, Ang Kami

Release Date: 4/4/2021

Description: Ice Fall Doctor Ang Kami explains how his climbing background. Then he and Ang Nima being explaining how the history of the Ice Fall doctors.

Explicit: No

Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium

Release Date: 9/25/2020

Authors: Nima Sherpa

Description: - by Nima Sherpa

Explicit: No

Loomis: Himalayan Sherpa Collection: Rivendell Lodge-Deboche 1, Chang

Release Date: 4/4/2021

Description: Description in Sherpa of chang; use of chang in festivals; how drunkenness is viewed; if women drink; Lots of laughter.

Explicit: No

Loomis: Himalayan Sherpa Collection: Pemba Sherpa 4, Pay Structure for Porters

Release Date: 4/4/2021

Description: Pemba Sherpa, a long time trekking guide, explains the pay structure for porters working in the Khumbu.

Explicit: No

Loomis: Himalayan Sherpa Collection: Pemba Sherpa 2, Changes in Trekking Industry

Release Date: 4/4/2021

Description: Pemba Sherpa, a long time trekking guide, discusses some of the changes that have occurred in the trekking industry.

Explicit: No