TIL 33: Building a better path

Norway hires sherpas from Nepal to build paths in the Norwegian mountains. They’ve helped them complete over 300 projects over there, and their pay for one summer equals somewhere around 30 years of work in Nepal.

Sherpas are extremely skilled mountain guides who can navigate up and down a single hill multiple times in a day.

They aren’t just physically strong, but also extremely sharp and street-smart, knowing every nook-and-corner of a mountain, including shortcuts other climbers don’t.

However, guiding tourists is sadly a very underpaid skill. Especially in parts of Nepal, some of them barely manage to make this their only profession, and generally have to do all sorts of odd jobs to get by.

Norway hasn’t just given these people better monetization of their skills, it’s also opened up a plethora of other opportunities.

The sherpas now have offers from all across Europe to help build houses and rock paths in mountainous regions.

Talk about finding the right market for your skillsets :D

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