Sometimes you have to travel across the earth to follow God's purpose for your life
We both crossed the seas to get saved
vibrant colors of nepal
Forgo color, and rather seek garments of white
moving to the himalaya
5 hours beyond airstrip our cliffside village sits just under the pass, Solukhumbu Everest Region
Prayer flags strung all over, electricity had arrived the year before our marriage, the hydro-electric plant was a project my new Husband helped build. Bengal tiger "Zeek" roam at night, and during our 7 day wedding celebration, the villagers brought me from house to house on horseback, the bells of the horse rang with my heart.
Himalayan Dental Relief Project
Providing dental care to those in need at a Tibetan Refugee Boarding School
Teaching English
Original Edmond Hillary School deep in jungle of Solukhumbu Everest Region
brief explanation of kathmandu versus everest region culture
Kathmandu is Hindu like India
Nepal is a caste system society much like India in culture and religion. Majority Hindu, Buddhists are only in the mountainous and remote regions. With dal baht dinners, the dusty streets of Kathmandu are filled with sounds of hustle and bustle. Vegetable carts on the road for dinner ingredients, hand grinding juicers and motorbikes fill the chaotic streets. "Yembul" as Sherpa call the city, is a place of thoroughfare for tourists buying last minute items before departing to the high altitudes of our Everest Region. In the city, bells ring, marigolds decorate, and tailors foot petal elaborate garments for locals and acclimated tourists alike.
transient ktm
brief history of sherpa tribe
High Altitude People
"Sherpa " is the tribal name for those nomads settling northern Nepal regions of Himalaya, migratied from the Eastern Regions of Tibet. "Sherpa" means, "People fom the East" of Tibet. Our tribe is Ningmapa clan, which is also the type of Buddhism practiced. Pasang attended the first school in the region, established by Edmond Hillary, the first Westerner to summit Mt. Everest. Earning money as Mountaineers since Hillary's assent, Sherpa have long been farmers, growing potatoes in the off season. Sherpa salt butter tea, "Sue Chaw" is one of our more well know foods. Earning world-wide respect, Sherpa are known as brave, compassionate, adapt leaders, and yes, sometimes porters for their Sherpa brothers guiding expeditions.
village life
Miracle cake in the himalaya
Everest Trail Engagement Party
In the most traditional and romantic God arranged series of events, Pasang and I were arranged to marry by his expedition team and my medical team. A surprise celebratory cake was miraculously commissioned from a Sherpa man who brought his baking skills back from Europe to the Everest Trail. Our engagement party welcomed us as a new couple into married life with a wonderful evening of music, roxy, prayers, and laughter.
