ABSTRACT
After he [Sir Edmund Hillary] had climbed and succeeded, he was so grateful to the Sherpas because without them he couldn’t have done it. He wanted to do something . . . and decided that what these people needed were schools. After the school had been built, as elsewhere in Nepal, governmental authorities took over. They wanted to use the schools to homogenise the country’s diverse ethnic communities. So they’re using the Hillary schools to teach the Sherpa children Hindu ways and Nepali, and English and Mathematics as well, so that they can serve the tourists and bring tourist currency to the country.
