# @reddigitalcinema on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BGnCNEPNH_K
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/12930972-reddigitalcinema-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2016-06-13T21:34:15.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** RED Digital Cinema (@reddigitalcinema) — https://gondola.cc/reddigitalcinema

## Caption

SHERPA Film takeover [4/12] by Renan_Ozturk // [Renan is a thenorthface professional climber, camp4collective adventure filmmaker and landscape artist who was the high-altitude director and main cinematographer of the feature doc SHERPA shot on the RED EPIC 6K.] // The insane triple stack 90-KG of duffle bags headed up the long, 10-day trek to Everest base camp. One important thing to note is that Sherpas with a capital “S” are not porters, but the ethnicity of people who inhabit the Everest region. With a lowercase “s,” sherpas have widely become known to the general public as specialized, high-altitude porters on Everest and other high Himalayan peaks. The porter pictured here is actually from the Tamang ethnicity, which is one of the many lower-land cultures of Nepal. Hardly any Sherpas take work portering loads such as this but rather play their odds in the more dangerous work of high-altitude guiding and rigging, piloting fixed-wing planes, or running the lodges. I have to say that a lot of the lower-land porters working in the Khumbu are some of the strongest, happiest, and hardest working people I have ever met! It is especially mind-blowing when they carry these loads wearing flip flops, even while crossing suspension bridges with heavy consequences.  #NepaliLoveYou #SherpaFilm #HeroesOfTheHimalya #shotonRED #REDEPIC

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heroesofthehimalya, redepic, nepaliloveyou, sherpafilm, shotonred

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