famous Sherpas Everest

Somewhere between Namche Bazaar and Tengboche, on a stone-flagged trail above the clouds, you will pass a mani wall. It is long perhaps forty metres and constructed from flat stones carved with the same six syllables, repeated thousands of times in patient Tibetan script: Om Mani Padme Hum. The stones are old. Some of them are very old. People have…