Ngima Nuru Sherpa is small in stature, but he stands tall in the annals of Mount Everest. The 5-foot-7, 150-pound native of ...

I need a sherpa.

Everest. On Mt. Everest, conventional acclimatizing can take up to two months while climbing up and down the mountain. Sherpas on Top of Mount Everest / John Waechter Impatient mountaineers have ...

Buoyed by tales of Everest legends – George Mallory, Sir Edmund Hillary, Sherpa Tenzing, and their pioneering Nepali porters – I decide to double my load and carry a lagging team member’s ...

Sherpas on the Summit of Mount Everest / John Waechter Such new regulations further dampen the romance and purity of climbing, a time when mountaineers went to big mountains, assessed the risks ...

the first man to climb Everest twice. They also met Dorjee Lhatoo, part of the next generation of Darjeeling Sherpas, a treasure chest of knowledge and an important ally for their project.

Ngima Nuru Sherpa is small in stature, but he stands tall in the annals of Mount Everest. The 5-foot-7, 150-pound native of Nepal’s Khumbu region has reached the summit of the world’s tallest ...