The North Face is dropping the word “sherpa” from the name of its fleece jackets this fall, using the opportunity to highlight the heritage of the Sherpa people. The collection, which was ...

Guide Karma Sherpa has led groups up Mt Everest since 1995, a year before the mountain’s worst disaster.

The economy and culture of the Sherpa people changed dramatically in the early 1900s, when mountaineers made Everest the ultimate destination for climbing, ushering in an era of mountain tourism.

Everest climber visits Colorado's growing Sherpa community in Golden. Ngima Sherpa has reached world's highest summit 24 times -- and is aiming for No. 25.

Mt. Everest doesn't exist in a vacuum; the Sherpa people know this mountain as Chomolungma, or "Mother Goddess," and it's not just a sacred landmark but a deity unto itself.

Like Google and Wikipedia, Sherpa is a noun that became a verb, as in “Can you sherpa a bag for me?” But the word “Sherpa” originally meant “people from the East” and is pronounced ...

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.

A Nepali guide recently rescued a shivering Malaysian climber near Mount Everest’s “death zone” and carried them to safety, according to officials ...

When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa made history as the first people to summit Everest, the term Sherpa became synonymous with porters. But behind the name is a deep culture, with a ...

Dolma Sherpa said the preservation of Indigenous peoples’ cultural values and skills, such as farming native fruits and creating various handcrafts, is also important. That allows them to pass that ...