Sherpas - Missing Word Cloze

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in the gaps with the correct word or phrase. There are TWO words you will not need.
   adapted      ancestors      breathe      century      decades      earn      electricity      expedition      exploring      foundation      guides      isolated      loads      lodges     reached      rely      traditional      yaks   

There are about 40,000 sherpas who live in regions of the Himalaya Mountains. They came there from Tibet sometime in the 16th . Today, sherpas still live in their way, but some of them have to a more modern way of life.

At the beginning of the 20th century British mountain climbers started the mountains of the Himalaya region. They took sherpas with them as because they were able to better in the thin air. They rely on , animals that can carry heavy .

Tensing Norgay was the first sherpa who the top of the world’s highest mountain, Mount Everest, together with Edmund Hillary. Today many sherpas their money by leading tourists to the top of the Himalayas. An can earn them $2,000 and more.

In the past many organizations have started to help the sherpas. Sir Edmund Hillary set up a that built schools, hospitals and gave them . Still, many sherpas live in the same way their did hundreds of years ago.