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Der traurige Millionär Sonam Sherpa Mit Trekkingtouren und Expeditionen auch am Mount Everest setzt Sonam Sherpa zwei Millionen Dollar jährlich um. Sein Weg vom einfachen Träger hin zum wohlhabenden Unternehmer erscheint wie eine Bilderbuchkarriere. Doch am Schicksalsberg starb auch seine Frau, Pasang Lhamu, heute verehrt als Nationalheldin Nepals.

Oliver Häußler

Vom Träger zum Unternehmer: Sonam Sherpa besitzt eine Trekking-Agentur und eine Fluglinie

grew up near Mount Everest in the Khumbu region in the small village Pangom at Lukla. daily flights to Lukla up to 40 propeller planes and lay off hundreds of climbers and trekkers to Everest base camp trek. After school, the eldest of five siblings, started at the age of 17 his career support - how many of the Sherpa tribe before and after him. "I was a freelance guide," says Sonam. After their self-understanding, the Sherpas are always "leader", even if they only carry the luggage of tourists through their home. Recommendations by his friend, the French mountain guide Louis Audoubert could Sonam Sherpa now and again lead his own groups and did not have to sign up with trekking agencies.

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Thamserku camp trekking: 1000 customers can be equipped at once

"I love to go with the people in the mountains," says Sonam Sherpa. With elbows propped sitting behind his massive desk in Kathmandu. A slight abdominal approach draws the dark blue shirt, the working uniform of the management of Thamserku Trekking. Next to him lined up with eight awards he from Nepal State had received for his successful company. "We are number one in Nepal," says Sonam. Thamserku is not the only trekking agency, which claims that of himself. The Sherpa looks at the ceiling, as if trying to recall, as it was when he still did not have to breathe the stifling air Kathmandu. As it was, as he led visitors through the wide valleys of the Himalayan Mountains. "In 1988 I had founded Thamserku." His company, he was named after the mountain Thamserku he had climbed the year before.

For 15 years now Sonam sits firmly in the capital of Nepal, every year more and more suffocating in smog. For 15 years he taught from the desktop to the guests the Beauty of the Himalayas. If the contractor comes out from the city of millions, then just "business" to make such as recently at the Tourism Fair in Berlin. The Khumbu region, the Sherpa looks rare. Although the daily machinery of his own airline Yeti Airlines flying to his home. From there it would be a short distance to the house of his mother. But he "no time" has. "Once a year I go home," says the man much

employed Occasionally he picks up his mother after Kathmandu. am going to the Moloch his mother not: too loud, too dirty and too many people. Sonam Sherpa worked twelve hours each day, seven days a week. His family in Kathmandu, he sees rare. Only in December and January, the business runs a little quieter. "But it's too cold for the mountains." Two years ago, is flying to South America where the Aconcagua, to climb the highest mountain on the continent. "Sometimes I've had enough of business," says Sonam Sherpa. But he will not quit: "Maybe in four or four years I'll think about it."

Oliver Haussler

palace-like headquarters in Kathmandu: When Thamserku Trekking employed 100 Nepalis

Today Sonam Sherpa enterprises in Germany und Frankreich ein beliebter Geschäftspartner. Hauser Exkursionen und Amical Alpin, große Anbieter von Trekkingreisen und Expeditionen, arbeiten mit Thamserku Trekking zusammen. Tausend Kunden könnte die Agentur auf einen Schlag ausrüsten. "Wir betreuen 5000 Trekker und mehr als 400 Bergsteiger pro Jahr", sagt Sonam Sherpa. In den vergangenen zwei Jahren sind es durch politische Unruhen im Land etwas weniger geworden. Trotzdem läuft das Geschäft so gut, dass er seine beiden ältesten Kinder zum Wirtschaftsstudium auf das Manchester College in Indiana schicken kann. Ob sie je wieder aus den USA zurückkehren, weiß er nicht. 275 Angestellte arbeiten für Yeti-Airlines, die sein Bruder leitet. Mehr als hundert Nepalis hat er fest in his trekking company employed: cooks, guides and Sherpas for the expeditions. There are also thousands of vehicles that Thamserku hires as needed. Whether

Sonam Sherpa three looks away, as it turns in the negotiations with the German climbers to Mount Everest, he does not betray. The Chomolungma, as the people of the Sherpa of the Everest name is his personal Mount Doom. Five times he had tried to climb the mountain. Five times he failed. Every time he had to turn around before the South Col. His own failure in the Prestige Mountain depressed him, but the loss of his wife Pasang Lhamu Sherpa. In a low voice says Sonam Sherpa, as with ten years of his Pasang Lhamu Using their own women expedition set off the ground. At the fourth attempt, his wife wanted to finally conquer the Everest.

Oliver Haussler

's all a matter of logistics: The trek to Mount Everest to be well prepared

On 22 April 1993 was Pasang Lhamu than the first Sherpani and Nepalese on the highest peak in the world. Sonam's not the woman was able to celebrate their triumph. She died on the way to the base camp of exhaustion. Today Pasang Lhama is revered as a national heroine. She was awarded posthumously the "Nepal Tara", the highest distinction of the country. The city of Katmandu erected a life-size statue to Pasang image. Her portrait adorns a postage stamp, a 7352 meter high summit and the highway to Langtang bear her name.

By Oliver Haussler, Katmandu

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Sonam Sherpa has his own company with their own aircraft.

He is the head of a major company. Despite all the work he is still with the people in the mountains.

1. Offizielle Zahlensagen, dass Sonam Sherpa das größte Reisebüro von Nepal hat.
2. Seine Firma hat Büros in Deutschland und Frankreich.
3. Sonam Sherpa ist reich.
4. Er war schon fünf Mal oben auf dem Mount Everest.
5. Seine Frau war ein Mal auf dem Mount Everest.
6. Die Frau von Sonam ist tot.
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