livelihood of sherpa
25 Jun
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Livelihoods of Sherpa

AGRICULTURE The Sherpa economy is directly related to their mountain environment and falls into distinct categories: field agriculture, animal husbandry, trade, and recent innovation tourism and mountaineering. The Sherpa’s life in the mountain is harsh and demanding. The Sherpa people use surrounding forests and grasslands for their survival ever since they first migrated into Khumbu […]

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Sherpa Gathering
25 Jun
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SHERPA PEOPLE

Khumbu is the homeland of the Sherpa people. Sherpas are the main ethnic group and constitute 90% of the resident population of Sagarmatha National Park and Buffer Zone (SNPBZ). The meaning of Sherpa derived from the Tibetan Sharpa, which means people from the east’ (shar-east and pa-people) to indicate their origin from eastern Tibet called […]

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