With profound sadness, we share the news that Pemba Tsering Sherpa passed away on May 14, 2009. He left peacefully in full possession of his senses, charisma, gentleness, compassion and gratitude for an extraordinary life. In Kathmandu, after three months of battling liver cancer, surrounded by family and friends, he closed his eyes for the last time just after a Sherpa lama offered him instructions for negotiating his path to the next life.

Pemba co-founded JOURNEYS with us in 1978. He was our dear friend and our inspiration. During the more than thirty years of our partnership, he opened his home and his heart to many hundreds of JOURNEYS travelers. We are grateful for the opportunity to share his story.

We offer this blog to Pemba’s many friends as a way of remembering  and sharing the events of his life as they influenced our own. We invite your comments and reflections here or send your thoughts and photos to info@journeys.travel and we will post them for you.  You can scroll below to see all blog entries in chronological order or you can click on the categories on the side bar.  To view complete entries you may need to click on the entries’ title lines.

With gratitude for your presence in our lives and Pemba’s,

Will and Joan Weber