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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 ]
Khumbu lies near Mount Everest, which the Tibetans and Sherpas call Chomolungma; in Standard Tibetan, that name means "Holy Mother", or the goddess of the summit. [16] Buddhism is the traditional religion of the Sherpas and Tibetans, and Norgay was Buddhist. [6]
Apa (born Lhakpa Tenzing Sherpa; 20 January 1960), [1] nicknamed "Super Sherpa", [2] is a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer who, until 2017, jointly with Phurba Tashi held the record for reaching the summit of Mount Everest more times than any other climber.
The 2014 event killed 16 Sherpas [30] and, in 2015, 10 Sherpas died at the Everest Base Camp after the earthquake. In total, 118 Sherpas have died on Mount Everest between 1921 and 2018. [31] [32] An April 2018 report by NPR stated that Sherpas account for one-third of Everest deaths. [33]
Phurba Tashi Sherpa Mendewa (Nepali: फूर्वा तासी शेर्पा, 1971) [2] is a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer known for his numerous ascents of major Himalayan peaks. These include 21 ascents of Mount Everest , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 2 ] six on Cho Oyu , eight on Manaslu , and one each on Shishapangma [ citation needed ] and ...
Rita was born and grew up in Thame, a small village in the Solukhumbu district of Nepal, living with his large family in a one-room house. Thame is also the birthplace of other famous mountaineering Sherpas, including Tenzing Norgay who (alongside Sir Edmund Hillary) achieved the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953. [32]
Kami Rita Sherpa (24 times by 2019) One famous Nepalese female mountaineer was Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, the first Nepali female climber to reach the summit of Everest, but who died during the descent. Another well-known woman Sherpa was the two-time Everest summiter Pemba Doma Sherpa, who died after falling from Lhotse on 22 May 2007. [135]
Nawang Sherpa (c. 1972 - 22 May 2024) became the first person to climb Mount Everest with a prosthetic leg by reaching the summit on May 16, 2004. He is also the first amputee to reach the summit of Mount Everest on his first attempt, and the first disabled person from Asia to stand on the summit. Nawang died during a descent of Everest in 2024.