{"id":127,"date":"2005-11-16T07:11:59","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T12:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=127"},"modified":"2008-01-28T09:46:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T17:46:16","slug":"man-those-sherpas-can-really-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2005\/11\/16\/man-those-sherpas-can-really-haul\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, those Sherpas can really haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hiking.gadling.com\/\">Gadling<\/a> linked to a way-cool story about how the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2005\/06\/0616_050616_nepalporter.html\">Sherpas of Nepal carry such huge loads. <\/a>  This passage struck me: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A porter&#8217;s gear is simple but effective: The load goes into an oversized basket, or doko, which rests against the back. A strap runs underneath the doko and over the crown of the head, which bears most of the weight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The story says that people all around the world &#8212; except us white folks &#8212; have long used their heads to haul big loads.  Back when I had my first paper route, I was five feet tall and a hundred pounds and had to carry these big bundles of newspapers in these over-the-shoulder bags. I distinctly remember slinging a bag across the top of my head from time to time to rest my shoulders. It was good for hauling, but no good for fetching the papers easily. Still, that&#8217;s probably as close as I came to acquiring knowledge others had known for centuries.<br \/>\n<P>How long till the outdoors industry starts hawking over-the-head backpacks? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gadling linked to a way-cool story about how the Sherpas of Nepal carry such huge loads. This passage struck me: A porter&#8217;s gear is simple but effective: The load goes into an oversized basket, or doko, which rests against the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2005\/11\/16\/man-those-sherpas-can-really-haul\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}