Apa Sherpa is a professional mountaineer from Thame, Nepal who has summited Everest 19 times. Over the last 20 years he has been witness to the impacts of climate change in the Himalayan region. My ...

These are the Sherpas of Nepal. Their load-carrying ability is so famous that the word “Sherpa”, which actually refers to one of the country’s ethnic groups, has come to mean “porter”.

Nepali Sherpa climber Kami Rita has scaled Everest ... In 2020, the south side of Everest in Nepal was closed to climbers due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but a partial reopening in 2021 allowed ...

Word filtered back to the Sherpa Homeland in Nepal, which was out of bounds to Westerners, and every year more Sherpas would make their way to Darjeeling to take on this kind of work. Sherpa ...