For most mountaineers, some level of altitude sickness is inevitable. But Indigenous highlanders living on the Tibetan Plateau, known as Sherpas, have inhabited the high Himalaya long enough to have ...
Kanchha Sherpa, who has died aged 92, was the last surviving member of the pioneering British expedition to conquer Mount ...
Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the mountaineering expedition team that first conquered Mount Everest, died early Thursday, according to the Nepal Mountaineering Association. Kanchha died ...
If you've heard anything about summitting Mt. Everest in Nepal, you've probably heard the word ‘Sherpa' in the conversation. The Sherpa people are an ethnic group native to Nepal, along with parts of ...
Does a real video show a rich executive trying to override a sherpa's decision to wait by paying him to keep going to the ...
KATHMANDU, Nepal — Help may at last be on the way for the Nepali Sherpas who carry heavy loads for foreign climbers through treacherous sections of the world’s tallest peak. When the main climbing ...
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's government decided on Wednesday to send a delegation of officials to the base camp of Mount Everest to cool anger among Sherpas over its response to last week's deadly ...