>>2550054>Sherpas barely get paid compared to the organizers of the groups people sign up with.>get paid less than some celebrity mountaineerNo shit, you don’t say.
>They need the moneyThey make 7x more that the average Nepal, and own almost all the shops, tea huts, and small airlines in the area.
>it's your ticket to visitThat’s what the permits are supposed to be for, but the Sherpa mafia can shut down an entire mountain and ruin your whole trip and wasting thousands if they feel like they aren’t getting paid enough or even for no reason at all.
>The pay they get is low and has to last the year.Low compared to westerners, but their pay is closer to an Eastern European than anyone else in their part of the world.
Nothing stops them from working other jobs outside of the climbing season.
>They share with family who do not work in the mountainsTheir family work in the shops and many huts they own.
>risk death each season. So does every climber, but they have to pay the Sherpa mafia to do so.
>they are accustomed to the altitude more than people who are not from there. It’s not like they live at EBC elevation, and acclimatization is a solved issue.
White people even made special chambers to do so rapidly.
>local knowledge is always invaluableNah it was really only needed to figure out how to the mountains in the early days.
These people were more interested in worshiping the mountains than climbing them, so all the actual climbing knowledge was first learned by White people.
>Nims pic relNims record will easily be broken once someone figures out how to game the corrupt permit system better than him with his military/ government connections
