Just watched a segment on ABC News about Sherpa community in New York. It turns out that after Nepal and India the largest number of Sherpas are concentrated in New York. It was a very heart touching story. There was a guy who was a taxi driver who hasn't seen his daughter for 10 years now. He hasn't even gone on top of the empire state...he plans to do that with his daughter once they get reunited!

There were also other notable mountain climbers....one guy (I forgot his name, Lopshang Jangbo?) who went on top of the everest in regular clothes with Nepali flag runs a curio shop in canal street now.

I feel proud to belong to the country of brave fighters(gurkhalis) and mountain climbers (sherpas)!