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 ...

When Pasang Nuru Sherpa recalls his childhood in the quiet village of Pangboche, in the foothills of Sagarmatha, the Nepali ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sitting at an altitude of around 3,800m (12,467ft) is Thame, a small Sherpa village in Nepal's Everest region. It is home to many record-holding Sherpa mountaineers, including Sherpa Tenzing ...

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.

Even with their skills, they can struggle. Ang Tshering Sherpa, the former president of Nepal Mountaineering Association, told BBC Nepali: "It's really hard to bring back heavy cylinders or dead ...

At the tender age of 24, Rita climbed the summit scale for the first time. This started a journey for Rita in his career as mountaineer. Rita began as a staffer but his mountaineering career took ...

Kathmandu (Nepal), Jan 03 (ANI): 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 ...