Mountaineer Nirmal Purja to build porter house in Khumbu region

KATHMANDU: Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja, also known as Nimsdai, in collaboration with the National Park, Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Municipality, and the Nimsdai Foundation, has decided to construct a shelter for porters who have been facing difficulties while transporting goods up and down Mt. Everest.

When everyone was not willing to support this project work, Nims Dai and Nims Dai foundation supported this project to make it a reality finally. It has always been a dream and wish of Nims dai to help and support porters the unsung hero’s of the mountain. This wish has now been transformed into reality.

After the Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality supported his initiative, now the porters who carry the luggage of climbers and trekkers in the Everest region will not have to face any kind of problem for shelter.

Though climbers and trekkers and even guides get accommodation in hotels, porters do not get that kind of facility.

That is why, in some places, porters drop the guests to the hotels and walk to the places up to two hours to take shelter.

Not only was food very expensive, the porters even behaved discriminately.

By seeking common problems of porters, Purja started a campaign to build a porter house on his own initiative.

The rural municipality has also supported this campaign.

“Since I came from a lower class and suffered all the hardships, I decided to build a porter house for the porters,” he said.

At the initiative of Purja, a porter house will be built at the Everest Base Camp in the Sagarmatha National Park area, which has been listed as a world heritage site, for the convenience of the porters.

Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality Deputy Chief Tashi Lhamu Sherpa expressed her confidence that the porter house to be built in Khumbu will resolve the problem.

She said that the Nimsdai Foundation of record-holder climber Nirmal Purja is going to build a porter house in collaboration with the rural municipality.

Chief Administrative Officer Jagat Prasad Bhusal informed that the DPR of the porter house to be built in Lobuche area of ​​Khumbu has been prepared.

According to Grishma Bista, who looks at overall activities of Foundation in Nepal, said that it has been expected that the construction of porter house will resolve the problem of porters walking 10 km extra to find the shelter.

This house will be able to accommodate 80 people at a time.

The porter house, which will be built at an altitude of 5030 metres, will be equipped with facilities.

Bista said that the construction of the porter house was delayed because of the flood that hit Thame this year.

Mountaineer Purja, who has climbed all the highest mountains in the world and has set many records, calls the porters as “unsung heroes”.