Pasang Dolma Sherpa cherishes any time she can spend in Nepal’s mountainous region, where she grew up in a Sherpa village. Now, as an adult, she loves introducing her two young children to the ...

Non-profit organisation, The Himalayan, hosts event to provide a platform to highlight the unique cultural and historical ...

Pasang Dolma Sherpa cherishes any time she can spend in Nepal’s mountainous region, where she grew up in a Sherpa village. Pasang Dolma Sherpa has worked with Indigenous peoples, women and local ...

Thame, a Sherpa village at an altitude of around 3,800m, was home to Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, the first person to climb the world’s highest mountain Everest along with New Zealander Edmund Hillary.

It is the homeland of the legendary Sherpas and of mysterious Yeti. Walking through the famous Sherpa village of Namche Bazaar and the Tengboche monastery with a spectacular view of the wonderful ...

As a girl in a village where almost everyone had the last name Sherpa, she carried her brother to school for two hours a day but was not allowed to enter. She disguised herself as a boy to start ...

This story appears in the November 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. On what would be the darkest day in the history of the world’s highest mountain, Nima Chhiring, a 29-year-old ...

Lukla village, gateway to the Everest region. Kanchi Sherpa does not feel that the summers are getting any warmer in the Everest region of Nepal. “We don’t feel any hotter,” says the 45-year ...

8) In 1974 in the village of Khonar, a Sherpa girl Lakhpa Dolma aged 19, was grazing her yaks when a yeti attacked, killing all five animals by smashing their heads in. She screamed and the yeti ...