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Phakding is a Sherpa village. Climbers can hire Sherpas to guide them up the mountain. Also this is where most climbs start. Helicoptors sometimes take climbers back down from a camp to Phakding.
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A sherpa is a native person who helps climbers reach the summit, and are payed to do so. They are highly regarded as elite mountaineers to their people. They follow a religion that thinks that each mountain is a god and that Mount Everest is the god Chomolungma, The Mother Of The World. They make offerings to the gods for good weather, lots of food, etc.
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A Puja ceremony is a ceremony in which the Sherpas do to create safe passage. First they summon a god. Mostly it is the elephant god, the god of safe passage through obsticales. Then they would give the god/goddes offerings of food. They hope that in exchange for the food they would get a safe journey to the summit
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Guide ropes are esential for climbing. Guide ropes are usually used to pull objects upward. For climbing it would be the climber it is pulling up. Guide ropes use a pulley system to hoist things up through loops pieces that are used to catch the rope if the climber falls so he doesn't fall of the face of the mountain.
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Nawang got Edema on the way up. Nawang probably got edema from low oxygen levels in the. That led to low oxygen levels in the body and taht water won't be moved so much in the veins. Edema is when water builds up abnormaly in cells. Edema mostly happens in the feet though it can happen almost anywhere.
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That year was the deadliest in climbing history. This is based on the percentage of people who went up who died out of the whole number of people who went up. The reason is that 15 people died trying to reach the summit in that season. Many articles have been written about this disaster.
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