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In this episode, I’m talking to Tendi Sherpa - who has been guiding people to the summit of Everest and down again now for 18 years. After initially training to be a Buddhist monk, he started work as a porter for treks around Nepal aged just 13, carrying around 43 kg for up to 15 hours a day for over 3 weeks at a time – and wearing flip-flops while he did.
A year later, he climbed his first mountain in the Himalayas alongside his father, also a sherpa, and got his first chance to climb Everest aged 19. In 2004, by age 20, Tendi summited Everest for the first time – an experience that secured what he calls his “dream to become a professional mountain climber and guide”.
Over the last 18 years, he has summited several mountains in the Himalayas and Mount Everest, specifically, 14 times – including doing it twice in one week! He was in the middle of an Everest expedition when the 2014 avalanche killed 16 sherpas including several of his friends and in 2015 when an earthquake halted that one.
He has now summited mountains on 5 continents and is constantly raising money through the Tendi Sherpa Foundation to bring education to the people of his village. I met him on a trek in 2018 to raise funds so they could build a village school.
In our conversation he discusses,
Outline📍
00:00 Intro
04:19 How many times have you summited Mount Everest?
05:20 Can you remember the first time you experienced pressure?
13:21 How did you learn to have the “I will do this! I can do this” mindset?
16:12 Journey from childhood to adulthood: Pressure coming from all sides of life
22:06 How do you consciously take your inner knowledge into your pressure moments?
26:55 Being able to turn back so that you can go forward again tomorrow with new energy
30:24 Insight 1: Lessons learned
32:33 Can you talk about your relationship with the mountain?
35:10 The villages energy & the celebration of seeing new faces for the first time
41:03 The basic fuel people need in order to have the right mindset
42:45: Insight 2: Lessons learned
44:16 Between life and death situation
50:00 How do you other people in your team, who are feeling more pressure than you?
51:51 What would be your advice to people, on how to be better under pressure?
54:10 Outro
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By Sara Milne RoweIn this episode, I’m talking to Tendi Sherpa - who has been guiding people to the summit of Everest and down again now for 18 years. After initially training to be a Buddhist monk, he started work as a porter for treks around Nepal aged just 13, carrying around 43 kg for up to 15 hours a day for over 3 weeks at a time – and wearing flip-flops while he did.
A year later, he climbed his first mountain in the Himalayas alongside his father, also a sherpa, and got his first chance to climb Everest aged 19. In 2004, by age 20, Tendi summited Everest for the first time – an experience that secured what he calls his “dream to become a professional mountain climber and guide”.
Over the last 18 years, he has summited several mountains in the Himalayas and Mount Everest, specifically, 14 times – including doing it twice in one week! He was in the middle of an Everest expedition when the 2014 avalanche killed 16 sherpas including several of his friends and in 2015 when an earthquake halted that one.
He has now summited mountains on 5 continents and is constantly raising money through the Tendi Sherpa Foundation to bring education to the people of his village. I met him on a trek in 2018 to raise funds so they could build a village school.
In our conversation he discusses,
Outline📍
00:00 Intro
04:19 How many times have you summited Mount Everest?
05:20 Can you remember the first time you experienced pressure?
13:21 How did you learn to have the “I will do this! I can do this” mindset?
16:12 Journey from childhood to adulthood: Pressure coming from all sides of life
22:06 How do you consciously take your inner knowledge into your pressure moments?
26:55 Being able to turn back so that you can go forward again tomorrow with new energy
30:24 Insight 1: Lessons learned
32:33 Can you talk about your relationship with the mountain?
35:10 The villages energy & the celebration of seeing new faces for the first time
41:03 The basic fuel people need in order to have the right mindset
42:45: Insight 2: Lessons learned
44:16 Between life and death situation
50:00 How do you other people in your team, who are feeling more pressure than you?
51:51 What would be your advice to people, on how to be better under pressure?
54:10 Outro