During the Everest climbing season in May each year, the Sherpas provide services to climbers as mountain collaborations and mountain guides, mainly responsible for material handling, camp construction, route maintenance, erecting safety ropes, leading climbing, and also taking into account mountain rescue, High mountain photography and weather services
The Sherpas are known as "porters on the Himalayas" and mainly live in Nepal, with a few scattered in China, India and Bhutan.
Mitochondria are the "energy factories" of living organisms and are responsible for the energy metabolism of living organisms
The mitochondrial composition of the Sherpa population is similar to that of the Tibetan population.
The average altitude of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is above 4000 meters, and the thin air will cause discomfort to people, but the various ethnic groups living on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau can thrive in such an environment
Genetics believes that high altitude hypoxia adaptation may be the result of multi-gene interaction
Scholars at home and abroad also agreed that 9 genes labeled as EPAS1, EGLN1, HMOX2, etc.
(Our reporter Wang Mengmin, our correspondent Sun Kaiyuan)
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