Everest for a Sherpa Teen
/A conversation with Adam Popescu, author of the novel Nima
“We fetishize and romanticize people and places and things and don’t allow them to exist in the modern world. And that’s not fair to them.”
— Adam Popescu
Stories about Mt. Everest usually focus on the people trying to summit the mountain. But what about life for those who live near the world’s highest peak?
L.A.-based journalist Adam Popescu first went to Everest to report for the BBC, but while there, he realized that there was a deeper story he wanted to tell. And he needed fiction to tell it.
On this episode, we talk with Adam about his debut novel, Nima. The book is told from the perspective of a 17-year-old Sherpa woman on the eve of an arranged marriage. Trapped between tradition and ambition, she’s forced to choose between the mountain life she knows and a new start in the city.
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