Sorry for a dumb question, but there are Sherpa people taking part in this expedition and then among them there’s Mr. Sherpa? Is that his real name or maybe he introduced himself as “Sherpa” and the author just took it as his name?

That’s fascinating and surprising. I thought some of the bodies had become ‘landmarks’ and would be there forever.

Just disgusting to me that a sacred mountain became a repository of corpses and bags of feces so that (mostly) Westerners could brag about getting to be higher than anyone else has ever been if you discount everyone who has ever been in an airplane.