It's worth noting that the term "Sherpa" does not actually mean "mountain guide," as many people believe, but instead refers to an ancient ethnic community of some 154,000 members.

The Sherpa people are an ethnic group native to the regions of Nepal that surround Mount Everest. Their surroundings have made them exceptionally good mountaineers, and over the course of history ...

Three men have climbed to the top of the world 21 times, all of them mountain guides who grew up in the shadow of Mount Everest. Two of these famed Sherpa guides have retired. But 48-year-old Kami ...

"Sherpa people love helping Westerners to get to the top," he said simply. Karma, who grew up in Taksindu, Nepal, and began leading treks when he was just 17 years old, comes from a family of ...

Pasang Sherpa begins his shift driving a yellow taxi at 5 p.m., just as rush hour starts. He screeches through the jam-packed streets of Midtown Manhattan. Lights of the Times Square billboards ref… ...

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, ...

As a veteran guide, he earns about $10,000 for each Everest climb, an enormous income in a country where most people earn just $700 or so per year. Life changed for many Sherpa families since 1950.

Danuru Sherpa, a climbing guide who has summited Everest 16 times, gazes over the peaks from Ama Dablam Camp 1, at a height of 20,000 feet (6,100 meters). Photograph by Aaron Huey, National Geographic ...

Sherpa engineer, Sherpa president, that’s the culture we want to establish,” said Gurev, who founded MySherpa in Wilmington in 2001. “In a lot of service industries, the service gets forgotten. ...

The Sherpa people of the Himalayas have long been recognized for their unique ability to excel physically in the thin air of higher altitudes. But new research from UBC's Okanagan campus, ...