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Heaven, Dotted with Pockets of Hell
By Moni Basu
CNN
Updated 3:27 AM ET, Sat May 9, 2015
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/08/world/
nepal-forgotten-sherpas-remote-village-everest/
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/qf6876a
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Lukla, Nepal (CNN)The Goma Air flight makes a swift turn over jagged white
peaks and lush Himalayan farmlands before a herky-jerky landing in what's
been called the world's most dangerous airport.
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In the aftermath of the enormous earthquake that shook Nepal, Phurba, a
49-year-old Kathmandu entrepreneur, has made it his business to get relief
to his people. By that he means the Sherpas, the ethnic minorities who
inhabit the towns and villages in the shadow of Mount Everest and are
known worldwide as expert climbers.
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The Sherpas prop up Nepal's lucrative trekking and tourism business, but
the government, Phurba says, has never looked out for them. Isolated in
remote mountainous villages, they have been a forgotten people in Nepal
and now, after the earthquake, they fear being forgotten again.
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For Phurba, the journey from the Kathmandu Valley up to the soaring peaks
is not just a humanitarian mission to help thousands of people living in
quake-affected villages.
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It's personal.
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"It is my duty," he says of the responsibility he feels to give back to
the majestic land and people who shaped him as a man.
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Few others are here to help. There's no Nepalese government presence. Nor
do I see any of the hordes of international aid workers and members of the
media who descended on Kathmandu within days of the earthquake.
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Granted, the villages and towns that dot the hills and mountains under
Everest are not as badly affected as other areas closer to the
earthquake's epicenter. People here are not lacking for food and water at
the moment. This is a region in eastern Nepal where the tourism industry
has helped people fare better moneywise.
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But Nepal is not just a poor nation; it is one of the poorest. And now,
the tourist season has abruptly ended for two years in a row. Last year, a
giant block of ice broke free and crashed down into the Khumbu Icefall
just above Everest Base Camp, killing 16 Sherpas.
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The people here worry if they will ever be able to recover from tragedy.
They wonder if tourists and trekkers will even consider returning to a
place of such risk and sorrow.
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Their villages are also places that can be extremely difficult to access
-- there are no roads and the only way to travel is on foot.
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A day of suffering
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Seeing his wife's village in ruins was hard enough, but Phurba's heart
shattered when he learned of the earthquake's wrath on Chaurikharka, the
village he calls home. He dreaded seeing it. On the second day of our
trek, he tells me to go ahead to Chaurikharka. He will follow later.
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It takes six hours to reach the village. There is no doubting nature's
wrath here.
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Sheets of corrugated metal that flew off roofs and sides of houses
obstruct the main dirt path. Chunks of stone and cement tumbled to the
earth.
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Nima Kiter, 74, rushes toward me waving his hands in the air.
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"Everything gone," he says in broken English. "We would all be dead if
this had happened at night."
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Most of the residents of Chaurikharka know Phurba and are relieved that a
native son has taken charge of rebuilding the village.
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When Phurba was born 49 years ago, most Sherpas, including his father,
either worked the land growing buckwheat and potatoes or they were traders
selling goods from Tibet and India. But Phurba grew up as a new industry
was blossoming: tourism.
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