Prolific Everest climber visits Colorado’s growing Sherpa community
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 ...
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Prolific Everest climber visits Colorado’s growing Sherpa community
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 ...
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YANDELL: Throw that Frisbee
We were five Americans, our guide Sunil and six Sherpa porters. Our trek was from Lukla, Nepal to Mount Everest base camp. The round-trip distance is about 100 miles with no flat trail area.
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Throw that Frisbee
We were five Americans, our guide Sunil and six Sherpa porters. Our trek was from Lukla, Nepal to Mount Everest base camp. The round trip distance is about 100 miles with no flat trail area.
Mint28d
Following the trail of Darjeeling Sherpas
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.
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Inside a Vail Woman’s Harrowing Pursuit of the World’s Highest Mountains
but two Sherpas had died supporting their duel. “That’s what was so excruciating to me,” says Ellen Miller, Metcalfe’s mentor in Vail and the first American woman to climb Mt. Everest from the north ...
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Helicopters slash the trek to Earth’s highest peak, but leave Sherpas grounded
“Helicopter tourism” that brings trekkers to Base Camp of Sagarmatha (Everest) in Nepal and bypasses the long trek there is taking a toll on local Sherpa communities. By cutting short visitors ...
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Will Rising Costs and New Rules Deter Everest Climbers? Not Likely
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 Star7d
The environmental and personal hazards of frontier tourism
ExpedReview reported that some 600 people summited the peak of Everest last year, a figure that included 350 Sherpas and 250 clients. Yet last year’s figures also included the death of 13 climbe ...
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Nepal increases Mount Everest climbing fee to $15,000
Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35% ... pioneered by New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Fees for the less popular ...
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‘Helicopter tourists’ to Everest Base Camp skip Himalayan trek, leave sherpas grounded
When Pasang Nuru Sherpa recalls his childhood in the quiet village of Pangboche, in the foothills of Sagarmatha, the Nepali name for Everest, his memories take him back to the gentle hum of daily ...