Some Sherpa communities live in fear of avalanches and landslides, which have also destroyed spiritual sites—devastating events that people sometimes blame on themselves or an evil spirit because they ...
he no longer has a desire to summit the mountain the indigenous Nepalese Sherpa people call Sagarmatha — whose instinctive, cultural understanding of and acclimatization to the mountain have ...
An curved arrow pointing right. Everest climbing-guide services — often provided by people of the Sherpa ethnic group — can cost $10,000 per expedition. At this price, the guide takes ...
He’s eager to give skiing a try, too. “We wanted him to share his experience with the people of Golden,” said Lhakpa Sherpa, a leader in Colorado’s Sherpa community and the owner of the ...