Nepali record-setting climber Mingma G. Sherpa received a heroic welcome upon returning home after achieving the remarkable feat of ascending the highest peaks on all seven continents. Mingma G.

Mingma G. Sherpa, a renowned Nepalese mountaineer, made history as the first Nepali to scale all 14 peaks over 8,000 meters without supplemental oxygen. His achievements were celebrated by the Nepal ...

But for high-altitude work, the most able Sherpas are those who live in Darjeeling, across the border in India. Most of these men come from families who emigrated from Nepal in 1921 and got their ...

A study from a Mount Royal University physiologist and his team demonstrates the key role of the kidneys in acclimatization to high altitude, and illustrates another way that Sherpas are better ...

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 ...

Jamling Norgay The Sherpas are an ethnic group who live in the high mountain region of the eastern Himalaya. About 3,000 of Nepal's more than 10,000 Sherpas reside in the Khumbu valley ...

A Sherpa village in Nepal’s Everest region has been engulfed by icy flood waters, officials say. Experts suspect Thame - which sits at an altitude of about 3,800m - was flooded after a glacial ...

The son of a veteran Everest climber who now runs his own company organising expeditions, Nima bested the record of Mingma Gyalu Sherpa of Nepal, who was 30 when he achieved the feat in 2019.

Listen to Sherpa's conversation with Nepal correspondent Sewa Bhattarai. Native to the northern belt of Nepal, the Sherpa community has been involved in preserving their endangered music.

Nepali record-setting climber Mingma G Sherpa received a heroic welcome as he returned home after achieving the successful ascend of the highest peaks on all se ...