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Oxana Morneva"s Interview for McGills Mountains

I'm A Sherpa. For me, mountaineering is a way of life Among my people, mountaineering is not a profession, but an innate need. I started climbing when I was 15. This was my dream since childhood, and an important step towards it was to enter the Institute of Mountaineering in Darjeeling. At that time, the Institute was run by Nawang Gombu, a Guinness world record holder, a representative of the old school of mountaineering and a follower of very strict rules.