Name: Yuning Qi Date: 09/01/2022

The Value of a Sherpa Life

Grayson Schaffer
DIRECTIONS: Respond to these questions. Use textual evidence to support your
responses.
1. (a) Contrast How does a Sherpa’s income per season contrast with the median
income per year? (b) Speculate Why do you think this contrast exists?
The median income per year is 540 dollars.
Because the values life on two-tiered basis is: Westerners at the top, sherpas at
the bottom.

2. (a) What is the author referring to when he writes “people who play the game still
cling to its romantic roots in exploration”? (b) Contrast What is the difference in
connotation, or the feeling that the words “recreational tourism” evokes? (c)
Evaluate Do you agree with the writer’s claim that Sherpas are not involved in
exploration but “recreational tourism?”
The author is referring to that people is not realized of the value of Sherpa.
The words evoke that climbing mountain is not a “recreational tourism”.
Yes, I agree.

3. (a) According to the writer, how do expedition teams react after a Sherpa dies? (b)
Interpret What does the writer think should happen after a Sherpa dies?
They commit themselves to finding the remaining bodies and loiter for hours.
The writer thinks people should have a ceremony after a Sherpa dies.

4. (a) Distinguish Identify the facts the author uses for his arguments. (b) Defend
Split your group into two halves. Each half should use the applicable facts to
defend or criticize the statement “It would be worse for the Sherpa way of life to
shut down Everest tourism than to continue as things are now.” Present your
position to the other group. Rather than debating, discuss whether the facts can be
used to defend your position.
The author use the facts that “shutting the industry down would anger the
outfitters, clients, and, most of all, the Sherpa” tells us even is not fair you still
Can’t shut it down

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