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The Sherpa people (Standard Tibetan: ཤར་པ།, romanized: shar pa) are one of the Tibetan ethnic groups native to the most mountainous regions of Nepal and Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. The majority of Sherpas live in the eastern regions of Nepal, namely the Solukhumba, Khatra, Kama, Rolwaling, Barun, and Pharak valleys. [4]
Sherpa recounts the tales of Sherpas in the book. It is a tale of struggle and perseverance on the Everest. It delves deeply into their lives and tells how they live on the edge of life and death. [6] The book covers the range of time covering as early as the first-generation climbing Sherpas from the 1930s and 1940s.
Ang Tharkay (1907 – 28 July 1981) was a renowned Nepalese Sherpa mountain climber and explorer who acted as a guide and later sirdar for many Himalayan expeditions. He was "beyond question the outstanding Sherpa of his era" [1] and he introduced Tenzing Norgay to the world of mountaineering.
Similarly, the Sherpas, known for their Himalayan hardiness, exhibit similar patterns in the EPAS1 gene, which is further evidence that the gene is under selection pressure for adaptation to the high-altitude life of Tibetans. [56] A study in 2014 indicates that the mutant EPAS1 gene could have been inherited from archaic hominins, the ...
Lhakpa Sherpa (Nepali: Lakhpa Sherpa; born 1973) [1] is a Nepalese Sherpa mountain climber. She has climbed Mount Everest ten times, the most by 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 ]
Tenzing Norgay GM OSN (/ ˈ t ɛ n z ɪ ŋ ˈ n ɔːr ɡ eɪ /; Sherpa: བསྟན་འཛིན་ནོར་རྒྱས tendzin norgyé; May 1914 – 9 May 1986), born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, [1] was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer.
Babu Chiri Sherpa (June 22, 1965 – April 29, 2001) was a Sherpa mountaineer from Nepal. He reached the summit of Mount Everest ten times. [2] He held two world records on Everest. He spent 21 hours on the summit of Everest without auxiliary oxygen, a record which still stands, and he made the fastest ascent of Everest in 16 hours and 56 ...
Kami Rita (कामीरिता शेर्पा) (born 17 January 1970), Thame, Solukhumbu District, Nepal [1] is a Nepali Sherpa guide who, since May 2018, has held the record for most ascents to the summit of Mount Everest.