Fun Facts about the Sherpa!

The Sherpa used to consider climbing about the god-dwelling mountains as blasphemous, but now it's the mainstay of their economy.

Traditionally, Sherpa men are named after days of the week.

They have eighteen surnames.

They may have a genetically greater lung capacity than other humans.

Some of them hold contests for who can climb Mt. Everest faster.

The name of their people is now a job description, even among themselves.

I didn't make any of this up.