“There is no future in Nepal,” the 53-year-old father of two told Reuters over the weekend.
The Nepali climber was given a hero’s welcome on his return to Kathmandu, but all that joy appeared to have deserted him as he surveyed life’s highs and lows from an armchair in the small, neat living room of his rented apartment, while his wife poured tea. “Why stay here?” he asked, speaking in his native Nepali and a smattering of broken English. “We need a future for ourselves… for our children.
Located on the border with China’s Tibet, Solukhumbu’s crowning glory is Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak at 8,849 metres , but it also hosts Lhotse , Malaku , Cho Oyu , Gyachung Kang and Nuptse - all names that any top mountaineer would want on his CV. Sherpas, an ethnic group living in the Everest region, have always been the backbone of mountain expeditions.
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