Ariel McIntyre

Furmula Sherpa poses in front of her rebuilt home, damaged in the 2015 earthquakes

Furmula Sherpa poses in front of her rebuilt home, damaged in the 2015 earthquakes

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Furmula Sherpa poses in front of her rebuilt home, damaged in the 2015 earthquakes

I love Solokhumbu

Landscape of the "Snake Place" with the mani stone watchtower on Tenzing Sherpa's land

Mr. "T" and Tenzing Sherpa peel potatoes before heading out on a the day's trek...

Tibetan mani stones walls surrounds Tenzing Sherpa's land with "Oh Mani Padme Hum" carved on...

Mani stone watch tower built by Tenzing's grandfather

Lower Solokhubu, Nepa

Teahouse cook

Tibetan mani stone

Tenzing and yournger sister, Chhimee, lift a heavy dhoka basket of fresh cut grass to feed...

Coals in the cooking fire

Juskumar Tamang and Rai  family

Sherpa tea is made from rice

Sherpa tea, a salty combo of rice alcohol, milk and tea

Baby Tenzing Tamang

Water pot and potatoes

Tenzing Sherpa peels potatoes

Tenzing Sherpa and his water buffalo

Tenzing Sherpa and his water buffalo

Sherpa woman

Tenzing Sherpa, currently lives in Kathmandu, is welcomed home

Steam from boiling potatoes

Furmula Sherpa's neighbor

Sonam Choti Sherpa

Furmula Sherpa with her kitten

Tenzing Sherpa

Cutting chicken on the kitchen floor

Rai villiager and child

Furmula Sherpa squeezes barley to make home brewed alcohol

Furmula Sherpa makes home brewed alcohol

Furmula and Sonam Sherpa

Tenzing Sherpa cutting grass

Tenzing Sherpa

Chhimee, Sonam, and Furmual Sherpa in traditional Tibetan Chuba Baku dress

Furmula Sherpa shares the latest village news to Tenzing Sherpa

Tenzing Sherpa blows on the cooking fire

making momos

making momos

Sherpa boy playing on the rooftop

Chhimee Sherpa in traditional Tibetan Chuba Baku dress

Sherpa women in Tibetan Chuba Baku dress

Chhimee washes Tenzing hair

Furmula Sherpa 

Dhoko basket full of grass

Tenzing Sherpa sprinkles loose incense on top of hot coals from the kitchen fire. The...

Tenzing Sherpa performing puja, bows or prostrates, three times to the Three Jewels. While continuing to kneel...

Tenzing Sherpa performs puja, prostrating in front of the Chote. Puja are expressions of honour,...

villager

Sherpa couple dressed in traditional clothing

Local shaman and politican

Furmulal Sherpa

Villiager shows off his bear bite

Hand sickles and Furmula's sweater

Tenzing heads home for afternoon tea

Hand Sickles

Ferns, medicinal herbs, and grass, cuttings for the cattle

Village honey hunter

Sherpa new house blessing

Sherpa tea service

Sherpa new house blessing

villager with Tibetan copper pot

Furmula Sherpa

Sherpa boy, Mr. "T's" youngest son

Annie Sherpa, Mr. "T's" wife

Sherpa mother and son

nervous hands

Rai vllager who lives in the jungle 

Elder monk

Elder monk setting up the vessels for the home chote

As water is a necessity of life, a pure sample is placed on the shrine...

Village monk makes a butter sculpture called a torma, a Tibetan Buddhist ritual, , traditional made...

Village monk

To make the torm, the monk uses cold water to help shape the yak butter...

Monks place sacramental items on the chote for a Tibetan Buddist village home blessing 

In front of the Buddha are placed the offerings (wheat, rice, corn, fruit, alcohol, sweets,...

Offerings of corn, rice, flowers, fruit and spices for house blessing

Juniper, ghee (butter), spices and wheat are prepare to burned as an offering

Filling vessels with ghee. The candles symbolize enlightenment and the sense of sight.

Kumbh filled with peacock feathers and water 

Monks chant house blessings

Offerings of corn, rice, flowers, and spices for house blessing

Tenzing Sherpa receives monk's blessing

House Blessing Puja

Furmula pours wheat into wheat alcohol

Chhimee Sherpa receives monk blessings

The monk's wife

Counting mala beads

Elder monk chanting

Prostation to the monk's book 

Danyabat bow and Namaste to the monks 

The "Snake Place" ... Stories involving the nāgas (snake gods) are still very much a part...

Tenzing Sherpa aka "Mr. T"... All Sherpas have the same sir name, "Sherpa," but are...

Tenzing, Chhimee and Mr. "T"

Village fields with mani stone watch tower

Chhimee Sherpa

Village butcher

Chhimee Sherpa cutting grass

Crop circles

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