Sherpa

Sherpa

Kanchha Sherpa. Photo: BBC

Kanchha Sherpa, last surviving member of first Everest summit team, dies at 92

Kanchha Sherpa was only 19 when he joined the historic 1953 expedition led by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay that reached the summit of the world’s highest peak

Kami Rita Sherpa, 53, a Nepali mountaineer, waves towards the media personnel upon his arrival after climbing Mount Everest for the 28th time, creating a new record for the most summits of the world’s highest mountain, in Kathmandu, Nepal May 25, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar/File Photo

Nepali Sherpa scales Mount Everest for a record 31st time

Photo: FREDDIE WILKINSON, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Kanchha Sherpa: The last of the first on Everest

The group of sherpas had paused at a point 70 metres short of the 8,611 metres (28,251 feet) peak to wait for each other before climbing into the world’s history books together at 4:56 p.m Photo: Reuters

Sherpas successfully complete first winter summit of K2; Spanish climber killed

Ang Rita Sherpa (R), who climbed Mount Everest 10 times without the use of supplemental oxygen, talks to Min Bahadur Sherchan, the oldest person to scale Mount Everest, at a news conference in Kathmandu November 29, 2009/ Reuters

Nepal's Ang Rita Sherpa, first to climb Mount Everest 10 times, dies