Sherpa people
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The Sherpa people are a Tibetan ethnic group native to the mountainous regions of Nepal, India, and the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. Most Sherpas live in eastern Nepal: the provinces of Bagmati
Young Sherpas in traditional attire at the West Bengal Sherpa Cultural Board
Sherpa mountain guide Pem Dorjee Sherpa at the Khumbu Icefall
Thame Gompa is one of a number of Sherpa monasteries in Nepal
Traditional Sherpa architecture, with a steel roof
Tenzing Norgay
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Tenzing Norgay, born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. On 29 May 1953, he and Edmund Hillary were the first confirmed to have reached th
Sherpa people
…in the Himalayas region. They have been instrumental in the first ascents of a number of Himalayan peaks, most notably in 1953 when Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became one of the first two people to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Sherpas are descended from nomads who settled in the Himalayas near Mount…
Norgay in 1967
Statue of Norgay at the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute
Mount Everest
Sir Edmund Hillary greets Tenzing Norgay, c. 1971.