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A critical look at heavy tourism's effects on the Sherpa of Nepal's Solukhumbu Region - home to Mt. Everest and the highest peaks on Earth.
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5 responses // Born to Be High (Up)

  • I like this pod, it is informative and well-shot. But why no interview with an actual Sherpa? I feel like this is missing from the pod, as you have only white guys talking about
    Sherpas. If they wouldn´t talk for religious reasons (which I doubt) or something, that should have been stated.
    gingerandgerardo
  • maybe there was no translator
    DanielleN
  • Yeah - I really wish I had interviewed sherpas for this piece too; being above 5,500 meters for the first time though gave me fairly bad altitude sickness, and it's tough to motivate to shoot interviews when you can't even walk straight. I actually shot the majority of this pod at lower elevations at the beginning of our adventure, where I was able to function. Which is a real shame, because there was SO much more I wanted to get. I can't use the "no translator" excuse as most Sherpas speak more languages than any finishing school grad.
    DrFrankenSteiner
  • Interesting pod. I like how the pod presents the conflict between the financial, developmental, and educational gains and the loss of the "purity" of the Sherpa's culture and of the Himalayas. This theme is a very real and prevalent problem today. How should the cost of development be measured, and is the cost worthwhile. Also, I liked the b-roll. I really got a sense of the region. I would liked, however, to have heard some bytes from some of the Sherpa tribe members. On a piece talking about the effects of tourism on the Sherpa, I think it'd be beneficial to hear from the Sherpa what they think the effects are.
    ebarnett09
  • So do Sherpa's actually have a genetic advantage at high altitudes or an inter-generational acclimatization coupled with indigenous knowledge about how to deal with mountain issues?
    rahulbrown

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