At the foot of the highest mountain in the world live Sherpa people. They are known for their success helping people for climbing Mount Everest (8,848 meters). Without them, it’s very difficult to imagine the Everest region could develop into a natural tourist areas that attract thousands of tourists and hundreds of climbing Mount Everest every year. Sherpa people are living in an area called Solu Khumbu.
Apa is the name of the climber, underweight and with a laughing face showing typical Sherpa people. He came from Thame village in Solu Khumbu region. Village at an altitude of 3800 meters is the highest settlement in the Solu Khumbu. From this village, the citizen of Sherpa is Tenzing Norgay and Ang Rita.
Tenzing Norgay is one of two first person to summit Everest. Ang Rita Sherpa who became the first man to climb Everest ten times. Apa, has climbed beyond Ang Rita’s record that is climbing Everest eleven times.
Tenzing Norgay, Ang Rita Sherpa and Apa Sherpa has been bearing the nickname virtually ever British colonial poor across the Indian subcontinent as the Snow Tigers.
Snow Tigers, is due to their legendary ability to look alive on the earth’s highest mountain. When the British people aspire to be the first to summit the world they took Sherpa tribe in the south of Everest. It turned out that the Sherpas are the mainstay.
In the 16th century Sherpas move from Kham. It is unclear why they moved. It’s just that there are legends that tell the character Guru Rimpoche who brought Buddhism to Tibet, said that when trouble struck in Tibet, Kham, people have to move south into a large mountain full of snow. Big mountain called “The place Snow Goddess” in Tibetan or Chomolungma. Now most people call the mountain by the name of Everest, the highest mountain on earth.
The difficulty of living in the arid region south of Nepal made Chomolungma is interesting. While living on the slopes of Chomolungma in the south, only have to walk down the valley of the river where the water is milky white to get fertile land full of greenery.
River watery milk that is given the same name Dudh Kosi, or milk river. The white color is derived from the erosion of glacier silt or river water ice is the source of the rivers. On its slopes Rododendron trees with red flowers grow. Flowers are brightly among the steep slopes make this plant a symbol of Nepal.
