heavy load (2 PiPs)

Nepal – Porter in Larjung.
The village of Kobang / Larjung is located at an altitude of 2550 m on the western bank of the river Kali Gandaki in the south of the district. Kowang borders Lete in the south and Tukuche in the north. The village is located at the Annapurna Circuit on the road to Jomsom 20 km further north.

The Sherpa ("Eastern people") are a people who immigrated to the central and southern Himalayas 300 to 400 years ago. The name of the people comes from Tibetan: "shar" means "East", and the suffix "pa" means "people". The female form is Sherpani (plural Sherpanis). Today there are about 180'000 Sherpas. They live mainly in eastern Nepal and in the border regions of China and India. Most of them are Buddhist and speak a language that is unique to their culture, which is also called Sherpa.
Since many porters are recruited from the Sherpa people, the porters are often simply called 'Sherpa', although there are porters from other peoples as well.

(28.68595, 83.61442); [210°] – Google Maps