A Prelude To An Interview With Kami Rita Sherpa

Kami Rita Sherpa is a very busy sapien.
Why wouldn’t he? One doesn’t climb five eight-thousanders 41 times (this includes 30 ascents of the world’s highest peak, the 8848.84-m Sagarmatha) just like that!  
At 11.22 am (Nepal Standard Time) on April 2, this journalist managed to establish contact with the mountaineer and wrested a bit of time from him (1.06 minutes to be exact) when eight-thousanders and the famous mountaineer were not together.

”Namaskar, ma Nepal Verified News bata Devendra Gautam boleko…”
”Hajurko euta biography run garun bhanera….”

In response to my mortal desire to run his biography, a reply came from the other side, with a bit of hesitation: Ma Pokhara tira chhu.
 
Dus minute jati phone ma kura gare hunxa malai biography lekhna (“Ten minutes for an interview, please,” sums it up). 
 
“Ma Pokharatira chhu,” came the reply with a bit of unease: “Ma client sanga chha”.
Apparently, the mountaineer was in Pokhara with a client, too busy to give an interview.

Let’s cut a short conversation shorter. At the end of the phone talk, the Everest Man agreed to discuss the matter with this scribe upon his return to Kathmandu tomorrow via a dhilo dhilo (delayed) flight, effectively hanging the interview project in the rarified air with all humility, at least temporarily if not perpetually.

On April 4, this questioner called up the 55-year-old record-smashing mountaineer from morning till evening, wresting another 1.07 minutes (from 12.55 pm) from the mountaineer to humbly remind him about the planned interview.

“Busy  nai busy chhu ke aja,” the climber said, making it quite clear that he had a packed schedule for that day too. 

“Bhare beluka garnu na, ahile ta guest sanga chha,” he said in response to our desire to run his biography on our portal.  

Apparently, the mountaineer was with a guest but this journalist saw a small window of opportunity for a conversation when the former asked me to call up Bhare beluka (in the evening of April 4).

Finally, Bhare beluka of April 4 came, on an albeit sluggish pace, and this scribe got that much-awaited opportunity to interview the mountaineer and managed to rob him of 8.31 minutes of his busy schedule. It was no daylight robbery as the interview started at 6.40 pm!       

While the record-smashing mountaineer is up in the mountains in the midst of a spring climbing season, perhaps in the course of setting another record, this journalist has yet to transcribe an interview done with him after a long struggle. 

Apparently, neither a sapien becomes an ace mountaineer nor another one becomes lazybones just like that!

PS: The interview shall see the light of the day soon. Please keep reading our contents.