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WATCHtalk Namgel Sherpa, left, and Thundu Sherpa as mountain guides and as watchmakers Made in Nepal Michael Kobold, who founded Kobold Watch Co. in Pittsburgh 14 years ago, has now opened a branch in, of all places, Kathmandu, Nepal. It all began in 2008 when Kobold, an avid mountaineer, and Kobold Watch-endorser and celebrated explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes met two Sherpas, working as porters and mountain guides, during an unsuccessful bid by Fiennes to reach the top of Mount Everest. Fiennes and Kobold met the two Sherpas, Ang Namgel Sherpa and Lakpa Thundu Sherpa, again in 2009 and 2010, on two successful bids to reach the summit. (Many members of the Sherpa ethnic group have the last name “Sherpa.”) Fiennes giving the keynote speech at the opening ceremony for Kobold’s facility in Kathmandu Kobold’s Himalaya watch, assembled in Nepal Fiennes, dismayed at the danger the two guides faced in their jobs, suggested that Kobold teach them, and other Sherpas, a safer, and more lucrative, way to make a living: watchmaking. Kobold did. A watchmaker himself, Kobold launched a training program at Kobold’s facility in Pittsburgh, in which two or three Sherpas at a time – Namgel
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