Les hommes jetables: les Sherpas de l’Everest
For more than a century, Western climbers have hired Nepal’s Sherpas to do the most dangerous work on Mount Everest.
In the past decade, climbing Mount Everest has become a multimillion-dollar tourist attraction. Nepals’s Sherpas have been hired to do most of the dangerous work on the mountain—fixing ropes, stocking camps shuttling gear for climbers—but are paid much less than Western guides. When Sherpas die working on the mountain, they often leave behind families who receive little in terms of life insurance payments: