Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Pratima Sherpa is the top-ranked amateur female golfer in Nepal. She was raised in a maintenance shed behind the third hole of the Royal Nepal Golf Club in Kathmandu, where her parents still live. In 2020, Forbes Magazine included her in '30 under 30' list of Asian personalities in entertainment and sports.
Sherpa is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. Sherpa (also Sharpa, Sherwa, or Xiaerba) is a Tibetic language spoken in Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim, mainly by the Sherpa. The majority speakers of the Sherpa language live in the Khumbu region of Nepal, spanning from the Chinese (Tibetan ...
Sherpa (emissary) A sherpa [1] is the personal representative of a head of state or head of government who prepares an international summit, such as the annual G7 and G20 summits. Between the G7 summits there are multiple sherpa conferences where possible agreements are laid out. This reduces the amount of time and resources required at the ...
A porter, also called a bearer, is a person who carries objects or cargo for others. The range of services conducted by porters is extensive, from shuttling luggage aboard a train (a railroad porter) to bearing heavy burdens at altitude in inclement weather on multi-month mountaineering expeditions. They can carry items on their backs ...
Officials are calling Friday's avalanche on Mount Everest the deadliest day on the mountain in history. At least 12 Sherpa guides were killed. According to Al Jazeera, investigators say the Sherpa ...
Sherpa is a curly piled fabric structure made of synthetic yarns like acrylic or polyester. The texture is soft and fluffy, useful in jackets resembling wool or sheepskin on the piled side. Sherpa fleece is a knitted type of fabric usable in line clothing and winter wear. [ 1] [ 2]
Lhakpa Sherpa ( Nepali: Lakhpa Sherpa; born 1973) [ 1] is a Nepalese Sherpa mountain climber. She has climbed Mount Everest ten times, the most of any woman in the world. [ 2][ 3] Her record-breaking tenth climb was on May 12, 2022, which she financed via a crowd-funding campaign. [ 4] In 2000, she became the first Nepali woman to climb and ...
Shearling. Shearling is a skin from a recently shorn sheep or lamb that has been tanned and dressed with the wool left on. [1] It has a suede surface on one side and a clipped fur surface on the other. The suede side is usually worn outward. Real shearling breathes and is more flexible, much heavier and the fur is much denser than synthetic.