"When I climbed Everest, I felt close to my father," says mountaineer Jamling Tenzing Norgay (Darjeeling, India, 1965). A man who introduces himself as a Sherpa, he is aware that he still has to explain many times that a Sherpa is not someone who helps climbers reach summits by carrying their gear on their backs. The Sherpas are a people who have lived for centuries in the shadow of the highest peaks on the planet. A people who historically didn't want to climb the peaks because the deities lived there. But everything changed when the Westerners arrived. "Our relationship with the mountains is different, but the arrival of Western climbers changed everything. Now we live off it. In my family, there are now twelve of us who have reached the top of Everest," explains Jamling. The first was his father, the legendary Tenzing Norgay, the man who accompanied New Zealander Edmund Hillary when, in 1953, they became the first to summit the highest mountain on the planet.