Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.
Interpretation
Tourism is beneficial for the Sherpa community, allowing them to maintain their identity while gaining economically.
In this quote, Edmund Hillary emphasizes the dual role of tourism for the Sherpa people. It not only provides significant economic benefits but also allows them to preserve their cultural identity and values despite the potential influence of Western attitudes. The quote highlights the importance of balancing economic growth with cultural integrity.
In practice
In a speech on cultural preservation, this quote highlights the importance of supporting local economies through tourism.
I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.
Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it.
I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.
Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.
Hip-hop has done more for race relations than most cultural icons; and I say save Martin Luther King, because his 'I Have A Dream' speech was realized when Obama was elected into office.
Culture defines who we are and how we see ourselves. A new attitude toward nature provides space for a new attitude toward culture and the role it plays in sustainable development
Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.
You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.
Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.
There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.
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