Dorjee

“The Chinese government is petrified of these peaceful acts of defiance simply because they represent the true feelings of Tibetans inside Tibet,” said Tenzin Dorjee, Deputy Director of Students for a Free Tibet.

Boing Boing 2008

The apparatus is mounted upon Dorjee, and I in turn mount the apparatus.

Paul Greenberg: The Holidays Are Over, And Now to Everest (By Cross Trainer)! Paul Greenberg 2011

Jan. 10: Though my strokes are a vigorous elliptical smoothness, Dorjee stumbles over the sharp outcroppings, and the apparatus teeters as we traverse a crevasse.

Paul Greenberg: The Holidays Are Over, And Now to Everest (By Cross Trainer)! Paul Greenberg 2011

At left, a photo I shot of Phuntsok Dorjee with a fellow volunteer, setting up a wireless network relay point inside a tribal family's garage on the top of a mountain at the southern edge of the Himalayas.

Boing Boing 2009

My Sherpa guide, Dorjee, joined by his extended clan, gaze in wonder as I mount the apparatus and bring the instrument panel to life.

Paul Greenberg: The Holidays Are Over, And Now to Everest (By Cross Trainer)! Paul Greenberg 2011

The storm's mists suddenly clear, and I rise from the console only to see that Dorjee has vanished.

Paul Greenberg: The Holidays Are Over, And Now to Everest (By Cross Trainer)! Paul Greenberg 2011

Dorjee offers up his abundant yak dumplings, but I refuse: the glistening fat speaks of untold thousands of calories, calories that I have given my very soul to shed.

Paul Greenberg: The Holidays Are Over, And Now to Everest (By Cross Trainer)! Paul Greenberg 2011

Dorjee stares at the screen and sees that the Life Fitness Virtual Trainer has also ceased her encouragements.

Paul Greenberg: The Holidays Are Over, And Now to Everest (By Cross Trainer)! Paul Greenberg 2011

I feel Dorjee behind me, looking over my shoulder, nay, looking through me, into her glimmering eyes.

Paul Greenberg: The Holidays Are Over, And Now to Everest (By Cross Trainer)! Paul Greenberg 2011

Dorjee points at the "calories burned" meter, which reads a dismal "zero," and shakes his head.

Paul Greenberg: The Holidays Are Over, And Now to Everest (By Cross Trainer)! Paul Greenberg 2011