• Source: Sardar (Sherpa)

A Sardar or Sirdar is a Sherpa mountain guide who manages all the other Sherpas in a climbing expedition or trekking group; Sirdar is the most common spelling used in the majority of English-language mountaineering literature. The Sirdar is typically the most experienced guide and can usually speak English fluently. The Sirdar's responsibilities include:

assigning responsibilities to the other guides
hiring and paying local porters
purchasing local food during the trek/expedition
making the final decision regarding route choices
handling other trip logistics such as dealing with government officials or police.
The normal progression to Sirdar usually involves starting as a porter, working their way up to being a kitchen assistant, on to an assistant guide and then finally to Sirdar. Sirdars do not normally carry loads but will do so on occasion such as carrying the pack of a client who is having difficulties from altitude sickness. The appellation is sometimes qualified with expeditions having an overall Sirdar but with other individuals in subsidiary roles such as base-camp sirdar and ice-fall sirdar.




See also


List of Mount Everest guides




References

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• Bencana Gunung Everest tahun 1996
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• Sardar
• Sardar (disambiguation)
• 1996 Mount Everest disaster
• Lakpa Gelu
• Rob Hall
• Nawang Gombu Sherpa
• H. P. S. Ahluwalia
• Mechinagar Municipality
• Sunsari District