... - for better or for worse, depending on your viewpoint. In his story of the ill-fated expeditions that attempted to climb Everest in the spring of 1996, Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer writes of the primitive conditions he and his team faced in the small hamlet of Lobuje, one of the waypoints they rested at before making the push to Everest. "The ... of charge to the Sherpas. The influx of money has also created a construction boom and provided many people with incomes far and above the annual $160 per capita income. As Krakauer states, "Hard currency from trekkers and climbers, as well as ...

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