The word 'Sherpa' is commonly used to describe someone who is a mountain guide or porter working in the Everest area. But Sherpa is actually the name of an ethnic group of people who live in the ...

For the pioneer Everest expeditions of 1922 and 1924 he engaged his porter force from among the considerable expatriate Sherpa community in Darjeeling. These men performed so well, climbing and ...

While Everest remains the most climbed mountain above 8,000 meters, other Himalayan peaks in Nepal have also gained attention ...

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Pastemba Sherpa, a Mount Everest guide, breaks down every piece of gear Sherpa guides use to summit the world's tallest mountain. All of this equipment needs to be carried up and back, so guides ...

Sherpa said. “I thought, why not use drones on Everest’s south side, especially the Khumbu Icefall section?” At his invitation, a team from the Chinese drone maker DJI went to Nepal in the ...

Interview with British mountaineer Jon Griffith on expedition in Nepal where Sherpa Tenji will attempt the famous Everest - Lhotse traverse ... This spring season promises to be an exciting one on the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Nepali mountaineer Mingma Tsiri Sherpa is a legend in the climbing community – the first person from his country, and the first South Asian, to summit all 14 of the planet's "eight ...

Nepal’s veteran summiteer Kami Rita Sherpa made history on May 22 by scaling Mt Everest for the 30th time, breaking his own record that he made 10 days ago for the highest number of ascents on ...

Everest and Mt. Lhotse, said Lakpa Sherpa, Managing Director of 8K Expeditions. The 8K team plans to deploy a group of trained climbers to fix ropes from Camp II to the summits of Everest and ...

Tshering Sherpa, Chief Executive Officer at Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC), said. The team will fix and maintain the Khumbu icefall route for climbers attempting Mt Everest ...