The world has now mostly moved on from last month’s story from Nepal, where more than a dozen sherpas were killed as they climbed Mt. Everest.
Their job is to go first and do the heavy lifting for climbers.
Today, the New York Times provided this video of many of the sherpas, just before their deaths.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins