Sumit Jha

Sure, we will take you to the mountain tops, we will build your countries with our sweat and blood, we will risk our lives to protect your interests where there is war, but we will never hang our self-respect and pride, just because you feed us twice a day. Holding people's livelihood hostage for monetary benefit is wrong. Specially after the biggest tragedy climbing Everest has ever seen. In times like those, we need to stop and reflect, persevere and improve the way we do things. Like opening up a climbing school in Khumbu that teaches safety first, a financial system that does not force the Sherpas to be indentured labours, an independent climbing governance committee that represents the people risking their lives and not the profiteers...and so on. Watch at 1:13:59, "...Do you know who employs them, Russ, these four or five? I know who employs some of them yeah. There's no way you can talk to their OWNERS and...you could have him removed from the mountain..." You think you own them just because you have more money? Who are you to think you can kick the Sherpas out of their own country, their own mountain? Just because you pay them doesn't mean you own them! Your industry wouldn't exist if the Nepalese people didn't carry you and your things to the top of the Mountain. The nepalese government, blood sucking leeches that do not value human life... Is asking for better conditions too much? Risking life and limb, they fulfill people's fantasies, and for what do you think? For money? No. They do it to dream of a better life. A life that comes granted to many of us just for being born on the right side of the border. And by the way, Sherpa is not a profession. It's an ethnic group. It's true that the majority of the climbing guides are Sherpas, but these are people who live in those hard places. Everyone can become a climbing guide if they practice hard enough, but not everyone can become a Sherpa. Unless I guess, you marry one (pun intended). Just a disclosure, I don't speak for all Nepalese, or any organisation/groups. This is how I feel being a Nepali in today's world. Thanks for making this documentary!