sirdar

Example Sentences

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His father, who worked as a “sirdar” or “lead Sherpa” on the mountain, could no longer climb after losing several toes and fingers to frostbite.

From Seattle Times

From there, he became a sirdar — the sherpa in charge of managing all of the other sherpas in an expedition.

From Seattle Times

She scrolled through her phone with sirdars - lead Sherpas - showing them pictures of the dead, asking for identification.

From Washington Times

She proposed to Ngima Kale Sherpa, Fischer’s Base Camp sirdar, that they assemble a team of Sherpas to take Ngawang down the valley on foot.

From Literature

A few hundred yards higher up, the tangi widened out considerably, and here they found the sirdar and his following awaiting them.

From Project Gutenberg