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The Sherpa people of Nepal are a perfect example of evolving a superpower, she says. Members of this ethnic group have lived for more than 6,000 years at an average 14,000 feet above sea level, ...

For every four people who make it to the top and manage to descend alive, one dies trying. When Maya Sherpa decided to climb K2 in 2014, her family thought she had gone mad.

In 1953, the New Zealand–born explorer Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa partner, Tenzing Norgay, gained fame as the “first” people to ascend Mount Everest.

The Sherpa people belong to an indigenous ethnic group that has lived in the high-altitude eastern regions of the Himalaya since migrating from eastern Tibet to Nepal in the 15th century.

“Sherpa people are naturally happy because they are born and raised in the mountains without distractions,” Lhakpa said. “Buddhism is not religion, it is a way of living.

Oli also honoured Lakpa Sherpa, who has scaled the world's tallest peak, the 8,848.86 m Everest 10 times, with the Pemba Doma Women Climber Award. She is the first woman climber to achieve the feat.

It never fails. Whenever I walk into the Sherpa House Nepalese restaurant in Golden, my olfactory receptors whisk me back to the Himalayas and a three-month expedition to Mount Everest nearly 40 ye… ...

Sep 29, 2024 Sep 29, 2024 Updated Oct 13, 2024 GOLDEN • He was once guiding in the Himalayas, once living his dream as a young Sherpa leading the way up Mount Everest, before a near-death ...