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Sherpas Summit Everest First In 2009
By Jon on 06/05/2009 18:10:21
Five Sherpas the first to top out this year as the Yellow Band is bolted for the first time.
Everesthasn't been making mainstream news headlines so far this spring, but five Sherpas have become the firstclimbers to summit the world's highest mountain in 2009. Everestnews.com reports that 'IMG sherpa Mingma Tenzing was first ontop of Everest
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Everest 2012 - A Sherpa's View
By Jon on 31/05/2012 10:21:24
Properly thought-provoking stuff as the New York Times interviews a high altitude Sherpa about the congestion on Everest.
A real eye-opening bit of footage in the New York Times in the form of a video interview with Pemba Janbu, a high altitude Sherpa recently returned from Everest. It's remarkable because it's a perspective most people very rarely see and because
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Sherpa's View On Everest - BBC iPlayer
By Jon on 31/01/2013 15:27:43
BBC4 documentary looks at Everest from the perspective of the Sherpas who make it all possible.
A quick heads up on an intermittently fascinating BBC4 documentary shown last nigh - Thursday 31 January - called Climbing Everest with a Mountain on My Back: The Sherpa's Story which is now available on iPlayer.I say intermittently because after
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Record-Breaking Sherpa Killed On Everest
By Jon on 30/04/2001 11:32:00
Updated Babu Chiri, the Sherpa who climbed Everest in less than 17 hours is reported to have been killed on the mountain
Updated Nepalnews.com is now reporting that Chiri's bodyhas now been helicoptered to Kathmandu this morning - Tuesday - forfinal rites.Babu Chiri, the Sherpa who set an astonishing speed record onEverest last year has reportedly died after falling
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Sherpa Makes 15th Everest Ascent
By Jon on 02/06/2005 10:31:52
Appa Sherpa has climbed Everest for a record 15th time as improved weather conditions unleash a flood of summiteers on the world's highest mountain. Plus where's Ran and youngest Seven Summits climber...
, extraordinarily, was Appa Sherpa, 48, who reached thesummit for the 15th time in his guiding career. His first summit camein 1989, meaning he's climbed the mountain on average almost everyyear since. His most recent ascent was achieved guiding for the
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Teenage Sherpa Tries Again
By Jon on 02/04/2001 11:02:00
A 15-year old Sherpa is to attempt Everest again this Spring
The Everest circus is opening up for business again with the newsthat 15 year-old Temba Tsheri Sherpa is to make another attempt tobecome the youngest climber to summit the world's highest peak.Despite losing the tips of five fingers to frostbite
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Walk Like A Sherpa
By The Canny Canine on 15/08/2002 13:28:37
The Butcher's Dog tells you how to burn up the hills Sherpa-style when trekking at high altitude. It's bursts or bust he reckons
. Walk Like The Sherpas Do! Altitude - weird stuff it is, and the key to surviving up there where the air gets thin and cold is acclimatisation. There are some excellent High Altitude Medicine web sites out
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Huge Avalanche Kills Everest Sherpa
By Jon on 08/05/2009 11:15:14
Khumbu Ice Fall swept by huge avalanche above Base Camp, frightening video.
Sad news from Everestwhere reports say that a Sherpa has died after a massive avalancheswept down the lower KhumbuIcefall just above Base Camp.One first hand accountsay that the avalanche came down from the western shoulder of themountain while a
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Sherpa 'not guilty' of rebel involvement
By OM on 04/08/2004 10:00:05
10-time sumitter of Everest arrested and questioned by the Nepalese authorities but released without charge
A Nepalese Sherpa has been released by the Nepalese authorities after spending a day under arrest and being questioned about possible links with Maoist rebels, according to the BBC.The arrest of Mingma Chhiri Sherpa, who's sumitted Everest 10 times
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Sherpas Squabble Over Everest Record...
By Jon on 02/06/2004 10:30:53
Last week's new Everest speed record is the subject of a complaint by 12 leading Nepali climbers including the previous record holder...
the old record held byLakpa Gelu Sherpa who is among the complainants. The new complaintfollows on from a similar squabble last year when Pemba Dorjequestioned the veracity of Lapka Gelu's then record of 10 hours and56 minutes, which was upheld after a
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