Friday, December 03, 2010

The Sherpas Come to Bolder

I love these success stories on how people from far flung cultures come to America and make it big. This Jengbu Sherpa is one of those successes.

He's reached the summit of Mount Everest 10 times, seen men swept off high peaks, and survived an avalanche on K-2, the world's most dangerous mountain.

"When I stood on Everest," he said, glancing up from a pot of boiling oil, "I felt like I was standing on top of the sky."


These days he stands over a hot oven at Sherpa's Adventurers Restaurant & Bar in downtown Boulder, serving up Nepali and Tibetan fare.


Jangbu is one of a small but growing population of Sherpas who have left
Nepal for this well-heeled town in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

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