Tell us a bit about the relationship that a visiting climber, such as yourself, has with the sherpas who are living and working every day on the mountainside. i m very clear, i ve been to everest or been to nepal 12 times. i ve been to everest and lohtse six times. i ve only gotten one summit in all of that, one on k2, and i can honestly and very candidly and very humbly say that i would not have been able to summit those mountains without the help of sherpas like kami rita, and another sherpa, who also has the first name of kami, from a village. i call him my guardian angel in the mountains. and i call his family my nepali family. we re his american family. we stay in touch. probably once a month we touch base with one another. after the 2015 earthquake, we were able to raise money to help him rebuild his house. a lot of climbers will go and support the children of their sherpas through boarding schools, so it s quite the special relationship.
That s then what all of the other sherpas and all the other climbers use to protect themselves in case of a fall. tell us a bit about the relationship that a visiting climber, such as yourself, has with the sherpas who are living and working every day on the mountainside. i m very clear, i ve been to everest or been to nepal 12 times. i ve been to everest and lohtse six times. i ve only gotten one summit in all of that, one on k2, and i can honestly and very candidly and very humbly say that i would not have been able to summit those mountains without the help of sherpas like kami rita, and another sherpa, who also has the first name of kami, from a village. i call him my guardian angel in the mountains. and i call his family my nepali family. we re his american family. we stay in touch. probably once a month we touch base with one another. after the 2015 earthquake, we were able to raise money to help him rebuild his house. a lot of climbers will go