Wanderlust

Phurba Sherpa

What made you want to guide?

I was born and raised in Lukla, in Nepal’s Everest region. For years I’d watched tourists pass through here, then I told my friends that I wanted to try trekking. I had a month’s holiday, So I tried out as a porter with Intrepid in2012.Iwas

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