While Western mountaineers used guides for expeditions from the 1920s, it wasn't until Edmund Hillary and sherpa Tenzing Norgay successfully summited Mount Everest in 1953 that the role of the ...

The majority of guides who lead tourists up Mount Everest are Sherpas, an ethnic group. Some Sherpa guides predict that soon, no one from their community will work on the mountain anymore. They ...

Famed Sherpa guide will attempt to climb Mt. Everest for a 31st time, breaking his own record April 20, 2025 Mount Everest’s highest camp is littered with frozen garbage, and cleanup is likely ...

This week nine Sherpas became the first to climb Mt. Everest since a deadly avalanche in 2014 and an earthquake last year. The guides hope more climbers return to the slopes.

Lhapka Sherpa, a Nepali Sherpa mountain guide, stands near Mount Everest Base Camp in Nepal, May 3, 2022, in a photo she posted on her Facebook page nine days before she climbed to the summit of ...

Veteran Sherpa guide Pasang Dawa who's climbed Nepal’s Mount Everest 27 times is planning to make another ascent next year in an attempt to match record-holder Kami Rita.

A Nepalese Sherpa broke his own record for climbing up the world's highest peak, reaching the summit of Mount Everest for an unprecedented 26th time, officials said on Saturday. Kami Rita reached ...

Sherpa climber Kami Rita scaled Mount Everest on Wednesday for a 23rd time, breaking his own record for the most successful ascents of the world’s highest peak. Rita reached the summit with ...

Lhakpa Sherpa has summited Mount Everest a record-setting 10 times. But relatively few people know her most harrowing moments weren't on the mountain.

A Nepali Sherpa guide has regained his title for most summits of Mount Everest after reaching the peak for a world record 27th time.. Just three days after a fellow Sherpa climber tied his ...