... no desire to be severed from the modern world or the untidy flow of human progress. The last thing Sherpas want is to be preserved as specimens in an anthropological museum."(p.48) A good example of progress making life better for the Sherpas is Ang Dorje. Orphaned at an early age, Dorje did odd jobs for various expeditions, and was working as ... a cook boy in 1984 when a Canadian couple, Marion Boyd and Grame Nelson, came upon him. He reminded them of their oldest son, and they immediately took a shine to him. He hadn't received much of an education ... ...

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