Last year, (click here) when the attention of the world was focused on a fight between Sherpas and some Western mountaineers, you would hardly have known four Sherpas died on Everest in separate incidents. Last week, after an avalanche killed 16 Nepali mountaineers, 13 of them Sherpas, the passing militancy of the [Brawl] in April 2013 looks like the opening of a new era, hopefully not one that encourages violence but addresses what may have lain underneath it: years of inequality, disrespect, and lack of recognition.
