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Sherpas are the local people who are highly skilled and experienced climbers. They are paid to do things such as prepare the route for foreign climbers to follow, fix ropes in place, and carry the necessary climbing kit up the mountain. it is a really risky job.
Relative location isn't the exact location so they would have to be using their mental imagery of a map. For example, after you go to fro a place so many times, you will grow accustomed to it thus by using mental imagery of a map would be a good answer.
I would say a natural disaster like a forest fire that could kill trees that are their homes. A forest fire could kill the trees and also the cones they eat for food and thus destroy their habitat and also a source of food and the branches they use to travel from one tree to another in the upper stories of the forest.
Well it depends if it is flat it would be smooth and if it was smashed up it should be bumpy hope this helped