Mt Everest in the Himalayas attracts hundreds of mountain climbing enthusiasts yearly during the climbing season and the world watches the event with the availability now of all kinds of media coverage. The event is becoming more of an international event getting more and more popular every year as climbers from many nations flock to the area, out to prove their mountain-climbing prowess. The climbers are composed of the professional sports climbers and many more of the amateur category, lugging backpacks of the lightest kind with nothing more than one of the smaller models of the Xenon flashlight for their lighting needs at night.

The amateur climbers are just trying maybe for the first time the feel of the actual hard climbing challenge, but present in the area nonetheless to exchange views with other climbers in the fireside chats after the climb, where the amateur climbers maybe do more talking, than climbing. The pros keep much to themselves, knowing how difficult the actual climb could be. The amateurs enjoy the camaraderie however, and the exchange of notes, perhaps useful in future attempts at the mountain. They patiently write down important tips from the more experienced climbers under just the light of their Xenon flashlights.

Many climbers develop some kind of addiction to the Mt Everest experience. These are the types who come to the mountain almost every year hoping one day to make it to the top and be acclaimed as a Mt Everest conqueror. They come equipped for the cold temperatures in the area and bringing light led flashlights for their needs at night. Many also have light portable heaters with them to help combat the cold especially at night when they bed down for some rest before attempting to climb up the 8,848 meters (29,028 feet) height of Mt Everest.

There is always a Sherpa guide at the side of the foreigner climber who can help him in the difficult climb. Likely, the foreigner must have given the guide earlier his gift of one of the pocketsize coleman flashlights he bought before coming to the Mt Everest base camp. The mountain guides belong to the hardy Sherpa tribe who are natives of the mountain area, and tribe members have learned to make a living out of the mountain climbing activities taking place every year. 

The Sherpa guide of course smiles when he sees the cheap led flashlight his foreign guest gave him – he would not have known that there was such a small but highly efficient flashlight had he not joined the corps of Mt Everest Sherpa guides guiding up the foreign mountain climbers of the slopes of Mt Everest.

The Sherpas are the hardy people living at the base of Mt Everest,
accustomed to the cold temperatures year-round. They are just like fish who live in water all their lives – take the Sherpas out of Mt Everest, and they could get sick if the temperatures are not near freezing point all the time.