My name is Sherpa & I am not a climber

• Main Authors: Kok, Yufeng, Mohammad Hariz Baharudin, Reshma Ailmchandani, Tan, Pei Lin
• Other Authors: Nikki Draper
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/63378
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Ever since Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and Sir Edmund Hillary famously became the first people to summit Mount Everest in 1953, the word Sherpa has become a byword for a porter, mountain guide or climber. But Sherpa is not just a job title, it is the name of an ethnic group of people who originate from Ti...