THAME A small man appears behind us. "Namaste," he murmurs in a quiet voice. He calls himself "Ang Tshering Sherpa," before asking, "Do you want some tea?" His house was destroyed by an earthquake last year, and was just renovated, but he still lives with his daughter next door. At 3,820 meters, t.
Sir Edmund Hillary, first to climb Mt. Everest, in 1953, predicted a gimmicky over-commercialization of the peak before he died in 2008. He was dead right, unfortunately.
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