Testimonials

The Sherpas are awesome! They are a great example of working hard, staying humble, and doing whatever it takes to get the job done. It was a delight to meet them and hear their story!

Ryan Beardall

The highlight of the training was the surprise visit from the Sherpas.  They were extremely inspiring and motivating. Everyone should hear their story.  Thanks for bringing them to us.

Ghajiibah

It was an amazing experience to have Apa and Lhakapa, who are the worlds two best mountaineers come to our training meeting and share their stories of hard work, determination and their culture as Sherpas. The one thing that I will never forget about the time they spent with us, is no matter how hard I might think that life is, there is always a way to climb over the hard times and back to the good times. As an outdoors enthusiast, I feel very honored to have had the chance to meet such great men.

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Travis Gillespie

I very much appreciated Lhakpa and Apu’s experiences and their willingness to share them with us. They were very gracious, humble, and inspirational. I look forward to learning more about them through the documentary and the other projects they are working on. Thank you for introducing such inspirational and courageous men to us.

Steve Hunt

I was amazed at how much they accomplished!  The information they gave was incredible and there’s so much about their culture that no one knows about.  I felt at the end that there’s a lot our society can learn from their success and the way they accomplish being both ambitious and humble so well.  It was a wonderful reality check for me and my ambitions.  They proved just how much the human body and spirit both can handle in this world.  It was a privilege to have them speak to us!

Jenna Bradford

It was an honor to have Apa Sherpa come to speak to our school. At Entheos Expeditionary Learning, we base our school around a set of core values. Some of those values include; integrity, respect, leadership, adventure, and service.

Having Apa Sherpa come in and share his life with our middle school, gave the students a real life example of those values that we hold dear to our school community. The students were extremely eager to have the world record holder of the most Everest climbs right in front of them, talking to them, watching and learn about his life and trip.

It was great to see the students talking and pulling in some of their learning and experience from the camping trips they participate in here at Entheos, and then trying to imagine themselves in Apa’s shoes. For some, it was intimidating and for others it was invigorating! Apa talked about the Providence Foundation, and why he was here in Utah.

He talked about giving his family better education and trying to give back to Nepal so that local villages and kids can have the opportunity like we do here to have education, providing them with more options other than guiding. Jerry was great at helping the students gain some perspective on the education and opportunities that they have here, and the difference over in Nepal.

Students listened intently when he talked about Nepalese kids having to walk up to three hours to get to school. They became excited at the feat of Everest and ignited by the opportunity to help. Since they have come some students have discussed in their morning crew’s some ways in which we could continue to help the Providence Foundation.

Thanks again, from all of us at Entheos, to Apa Sherpa and Jerry Mika for coming to speak to our Middle School!

Amy Kovacs

Adventure Coordinator