This is a compilation of video clips and pictures from a 10 day trek in the Solo Khumbu Region of Nepal and is the gateway to the Sherpa culture and Mt. Everest. /April 2006/


Solo Khumbu or Everest region.
The Khumbu or Everest region is one of the most popular trekking areas in Nepal. The Solo Khumbu area is famous because of its proximity to Mount Everest, but it is also the home of the Sherpas -- the famed mountain people of Nepal. Getting into the Khumbu region, however, takes a lot of effort. One must either walk for 10 days or fly to Lukla, a remote mountain airstrip where flights are notoriously unreliable. Lukla is located at an altitude of 2,850 m (9350 ft) and the area to the north of Lukla is called the Khumbu region. The half-hour flight from Kathmandu can be a spectacular experience, passing close to some of the highest mountain peaks in the world. However, these flights are rather unreliable due to the weather conditions in the mountains.
Namche Bazar
Namche Bazar is a village lying at the junction of the Dudh Koshi and a lateral valley that leads to the frontier pass of Nangpa La (18,000 ft). It is tucked away in a "bowl" at a height of 7,845 ft. Namche Bazar is the major regional trading center, and contains the headquarters of the Sagarmatha National Park.
Thyangboche
The monastery at Thyangboche (or Tengboche) is one of the famous gompas in Nepal. It is one of the most important centers of Buddhism in the region. The largest gompa in the Khumbu region, it was built in 1923. It was destroyed due to a fire in 1989 and has been carefully rebuilt partly with foreign aid and volunteers. From Thyangboche, one gets a panoramic view of the Himalayan giants Kwangde, Tawache, Everest, Nuptse, Lhotse, Amadablam, Kangtenga, and Thamserku.

Film jest kompilacja zdjęć i clip'ow z 10 dniowego trekingu w regionie Solo Khumbu w Nepalu, uwazanego za bramę do kainy Sherpów i ich kultury oraz do Mt. Everest. /kwiecień 2006r/
Solo Khumbu albo region Everestu.
Jest to jeden z najbardziej popularnych regionów trekingowych w Nepalu. Solo Khumbu region jest sławny m.in. dlatego , że to region gdzie jest Mt. Everest , ale także dom Sherpów , górskiego ludu żyjącego w Wysokich Górach w Nepalu. Sława tego ludu juz dawno wykroczyła poza granice Nepalu , dziś są znani na całym świecie , a zaczęło się to od pierwszego zdobywcy Everestu - Tenzing Norgay'a /bo to właśnie on, a nie Edmund Hillary był tym pierwszym człowiekiem , który zdobył szczyt Góry Gór.. w czasie wyprawy w maju 1953r.. no oczywiście na chwile zapominamy o sprawie Malorego , ponieważ nie ma jasnych dowodów czy zdobył czy też nie zdobył Everestu/ więcej o najsławniejszym Sherpie zobaczysz czytając post : http://everestmydream.blogspot.com/2007/10/tenzing-norgay-most-famous-sherpa.html
Sam zaś region Solo Khumbu szeroko opisuje w poscie o trekingu do Everest BC , zobacz : http://everestmydream.blogspot.com/2007/11/everest-base-camp-classic-treks-version.html

I would like to invite you on viewing of new photo gallery which pictures the story of the discovery and climbing the Mt Everest ..
Zapraszam na pokaz zdjęć z odkrywania i zdobywania Everestu :

Sherpa people

The Sherpa are an ethnic group from the most mountainous region of Nepal, high in the Himalaya. In Tibetan shar means East; pa is a suffix meaning 'people': hence the word sharpa or Sherpa. Sherpas migrated from eastern Tibet to Nepal within the last 500 years. A female sherpa is known as a "sherpani".

The term 'sherpa' (the preferred spelling with a lower case first letter) is also used to refer to local people, typically men, employed as porters or guides for mountaineering expeditions in the Himalayas. They are highly regarded as elite mountaineers and experts in their local terrain, as well as having good physical endurance and resilience to high altitude conditions. However, a sherpa is not necessarily a member of the Sherpa ethnic group.

Native territory

Most Sherpas live in the eastern regions of Nepal Solu, Khumbu or Pharak. However, some live farther west in the Rolwaling valley and in the Helambu region north of Kathmandu. Pangboche is the Sherpas' oldest village in Nepal, and is estimated to have been built over 300 years ago. Sherpas speak their own Sherpa language which in many ways resembles a dialect of Tibetan. They traditionally are traders and farmers, cultivating their high altitude fields of potatoes, barley, wheat and buckwheat. Some live near Namche Bazaar. The Jirels, native people of Jiri, are ethnically related to the Sherpas. It is said that the Jirels are descendants of a Sherpa mother and Sunuwar (another ethnic group of the eastern part of Nepal) father. In India, Sherpas also inhabit the towns of Darjeeling and Kalimpong and the Indian state of Sikkim. The 2001 Nepal Census recorded 154,622 Sherpas in that country, of which 92.83% were Buddhists, 6.26% were Hindus, 0.63% were Christians and 0.20% were Bön.

Famous Sherpas

The most famous Sherpa is Tenzing Norgay, who climbed Mount Everest with Edmund Hillary for the first time in 1953.

Two Sherpas, Pemba Dorjie and Lhakpa Gelu, have recently competed as to who can climb Everest from Basecamp the fastest. On May 23. 2003 Dorjie summitted in 12 hours and 46 minutes. Three days later, Gelu beat his record by two hours, summitting in 10 hours 46 minutes. On May. 21 2004 Dorjie again improved the record by more than two hours with a total time of 8 hours and 10 minutes.

On May 16 2007 Appa Sherpa successfully climbed Mt. Everest for the 17th time, breaking his own record for most successful ascents.