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Same would happen to a vegan docker (there is zero of vegan Sherpas in a whole Himalaya).

Why criticize the economics of Sherpas for being dangerous when our own economies are killing people by the millions?

Sherpa Adventure Gear is at least owned made and tested by sherpas...

Do you know that many climbing Sherpas have made enough money to even start their own companies, open hotels and send their kids to good universities?

Every people including our sherpas are safe on our side.

Those mountains are for genuine climbers that can earn their ascent there, not idiots with too much money and no respect for a mountain, who have sherpas basically push them to the top.

I've not followed this particular ascent very closely, but I assume it went along the same lines, just with more gear and a bigger support network (much like sherpas for Himalayan mountaineering or marathon support crews).

> Those mountains are for genuine climbers that can earn their ascent there, not idiots with too much money and no respect for a mountain, who have sherpas basically push them to the top.

Tibetans, Sherpas and other Himalayan tribes are still rely heavily on cow/nak butter (the main commodity and the source of nutrition) and Tsampa (rusted barley flour) which they consume on a daily basis in the form of so-called Sherpa tea (butter, Tsampa, hot watter, sugar or salt) or in a form of bread-like mass (same ingredients).

Certainly sound and act like a union: > Nevertheless, on April 20th, after holding several emotional, contentious meetings at Everest base camp, the climbing Sherpas announced that they would go on strike unless the Nepali government agreed to meet thirteen demands within a week.

I think the $50,000-$90,000 is the 'all inclusive' cost covering a $10,000 Nepali government fee, sherpas, western guides, accommodation at base camps, food, drugs, bottled oxygen, trash removal, travel company profit margin and so on.

The "only" difficulties with the Everes ascent are with cold and oxygen deprivation, which are solved by technical means and sherpas hard labor.

Nowadays even pop-starts were "carried to the top" by Sherpas, for whom it is just a job.

If you do any reading or watching on treks up the mountain you know the only way 90+% of these "mountaineers" get up to the summit is because of the hard work and ascents of sherpas.

Given your closeness to that situation, are all or even most of the "Sherpas" upset with all the connotations the word had accumulated in English over the decades?

Sherpas and Tibetans have thousands of years of natural selection to develop increased survival ability at altitude.

Is it possible to go to Everest and climb the mountain without the use of Sherpas?

And even if you were right, then they would not break even if the expedition happened and they had to pay the Sherpas.