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Sherpa's Adventure Restaurant and Bar has been a Boulder favorite since 2001. It's the vision of Pemba Sherpa, who from poor ...
David Sullivan's defibrillator on Mount Everest wound up saving a life, highlighting the importance of CPR training and access to life-saving devices in remote areas.
“Climb with us.” That was the headline on a recent Utah Jazz email sent far and wide, meant to sell season tickets for the coming NBA slog. And that word “climb” caught my attention. That’s what the ...
Kami Rita first summited Everest in 1994, when he was 24 years old. He’s climbed the towering mountain nearly every year since then—at least once, sometimes twice, per NPR ’s Bill Chappell ...
At an altitude of over 8,200 meters on the flanks of K2, extreme mountaineer Kristin Harila finds a high-altitude porter who has fallen. He is hanging upside down from a fixed rope and fighting for ...
Nepal ’s legendary mountaineer Kami Rita Sherpa has once again extended his own record by summiting Mount Everest for the 31st time, reinforcing his title as the “Everest Man”. The 55-year ...
Something which would have been unfathomable in the times of Elizabeth Hawley, “She came from an old, colonial world. In her archives, a Sherpa was never an expedition leader.” Also, the work on the ...
Mr Nima started climbing at 16 and debuted on Sept 30, 2022, with Mount Manaslu, the eighth-highest mountain in the world at 8,163m, after passing his secondary school-leaving Class 10 examination.
Last fall, Nima Rinji Sherpa, then 17, was in Tibet preparing to ascend Mount Shishapangma, the world’s 14th highest mountain. He knew reaching its 26,335-foot, or 8,027-meter, summit would ...