Seven times I have tried, I have come back and tried again, not with pride and force, not as a soldier to an enemy, but with love, as a child climbs onto the lap of its mother. Now at last I have been granted success, and I give thanks, “Thuji Chey” that is how we say it in Sherpa, “I am grateful”



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