She presents gifts to each member of her family as her parting gesture. The service is followed by dinner and dancing. Sherpa dancing is performed in a line. Three or more men link arms and with one person singing and chanting, a complicated series of steps follow. Sherpa wedding clothes and jewellery are outstanding.
Men wear long black cloaks, high leather boots and rumpled fedoras.
The groom, resplendent in yellow brocade, crowned with a red boater style hat, looked like an Oriental potentate. The women were dressed in colourful brocade decorated with lavish necklaces of zei stones and gold and silver boxes encrusted with turquoise, coral and pearls. Many of the brocade pill-box style hats were trimmed with panels of fox fur. And if this was not enough, one had only to look up at the snowcapped peaks of the surrounding mountains, towering 13,000 feet over the village, to feel that the scene was complete. It is now possible to fly from Kathmandu to Lhasa in an hour, surely one of the most spectacular flights in the world.