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

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

Loomis: Himalayan Sherpa Collection: Pemba Sherpa 3, How Treatment of Nepalis and Westerners Differs

Release Date: 4/4/2021

Description: Pemba Sherpa, a long time trekking guide, discusses some of the difference in medical treatment that Nepalis and Westerners receive.

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: Ang Rita 2, Clothing

Release Date: 4/4/2021

Description: Ang Rita explains in Sherpa how the Sherpa used to dress more like the Tibetans before western trekkers were so prevalent in the valley.

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: Dr Kami Sherpa 1, Brain Drain

Release Date: 4/4/2021

Description: Dr. Kami Sherpa discusses some of the challenges of recruiting Nepali doctors that are willing to stay and work long term in the Khumbu.

Explicit: No

Loomis: Himalayan Sherpa Collection: Ice Fall Doctors 7, Singing

Release Date: 4/4/2021

Description: Ang Nima and Ang Kami sing a few different songs. They begin with a Japanese climbing song, but move onto Sherpa songs.

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 3, Ang Nima 1

Release Date: 4/4/2021

Description: Ang Nima, who has worked as an Ice Fall Doctor since 1975, describes his plan and desire to climb Mount Everest. It is worthwhile noting his proposed schedule to go up the mountain. He is proposing a time frame that would be unfathomable to most non-Sherpa.

Explicit: No