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Lhakpa Sherpa
Lhakpa Sherpa (also Lakpa) ( ne, Lakhpa Sherpa; born 1973) is a Nepalese Sherpa mountain climber. She has climbed Mount Everest ten times, the most of any woman in the world. Her record-breaking tenth climb was on May 12, 2022, which she financed via a crowd-funding campaign. In 2000, she became the first Nepali woman to climb and descend Everest successfully. In 2016, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women. Early life Lhakpa Sherpa was born in a cave in the region, and had no formal education. She grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu, Nepal region of the Himalayas. She is one of 11 children, and is a single mother of two daughters and a son herself. Career In 2000 she was the leader of an expedition sponsored by Asian Trekking. On September 18, 2000 she became the first Nepali woman to summit Mount Everest and survive (see also Pasang Lhamu Sherpa). This climb was with the Nepali Women Millennium Expedition. In 2003, the U.S. PBS noted that she had summited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherpa People
The Sherpa are one of the Tibetan ethnic groups native to the most mountainous regions of Nepal, Tingri County in the Tibet Autonomous Region and the Himalayas. The term ''sherpa'' or ''sherwa'' derives from the Sherpa language words ("east") and ("people"), which refer to their geographical origin of eastern Tibet. Most Sherpa people live in the eastern regions of Nepal and Tingri County, though some live farther west in the Rolwaling Valley, Bigu and in the Helambu region north of Kathmandu, Nepal. Sherpas establish gompas where they practice their religious traditions. Tengboche was the first celibate monastery in Solu-Khumbu. Sherpa people also live in Tingri County, Bhutan, and the Indian states of Sikkim and the northern portion of West Bengal, specifically the district of Darjeeling. The Sherpa language belongs to the south branch of the Tibeto-Burman languages, mixed with Eastern Tibet (Khamba) and central Tibetan dialects. However, this language is separate from L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of 20th-century Summiters Of Mount Everest
Mount Everest, at is currently the world's highest mountain and is a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers. This is a list of people who reached the summit of Mount Everest in the 20th century. Overall about 1,383 people summited Everest between 1953 and the end of 2000. After 2000, the number of summiters greatly increased when ascending the mountain became more accessible and more popular. By 2013, 6,871 summits had been recorded by 4,042 different people. 1950s Only six people summited Mount Everest in the 1950s: * Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on May 29, 1953 (1953 British Mount Everest expedition) * Ernst Schmied and Jürg Marmet on May 23, 1956 * Dolf Reist and Hans-Rudolf von Gunten on May 24, 1956 1960s In total, 18 people summited in the 1960s. These are some of the ascents: *Wang Fuzhou, Gonpo Dorje, and Chu Ying-hua on May 25, 1960. The 1960 Chinese Mount Everest expedition was the first to successfully climb Mount Everest by the North Ridge. *Jim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shriya Shah-Klorfine
Shriya Shah-Klorfine (January 11, 1979 – May 19, 2012) was a Nepal-born Canadian woman who died while descending from the summit of Mount Everest in 2012. Early life Shah-Klorfine was born in Kathmandu, Nepal, according to ''CityNews''. At the age of nine, Shah-Klorfine had taken a helicopter tour of Mount Everest with her father. She attended Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal. She grew up in Mumbai, India, which she left to work on cruise ships as a purser. While working on a cruise ship, she met her future husband Bruce Klorfine, who was a jazz and event piano player. They married and settled in his hometown of Toronto, Canada where she became a fashion buyer for the Fairweather women's clothing chain. They were together for about a decade before she died on Everest. Shah-Klorfine was also a businesswoman who started "SOS Splash of Style Inc." She was also a candidate during the 2011 Ontario general election in the riding of Mississauga East—Cooksville. Everest exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mount Everest Summiters By Number Of Times To The Summit
The list consists of people who reached the summit of Mount Everest more than once. By 2013, 6,871 summits have been recorded by 4,042 people. Despite two hard years of disaster (2014 and 2015), by the end of 2016 there were 7,646 summits by 4,469 people. In 2018 about 800 people summited, breaking the record for most in one year compared to 2013, in which 667 summited Mount Everest. As of July 2022, there have been approximately 11,346 summit ascents by 6,098 people. ''Note all information may not be completed/updated, it can take months and even years to update summit counts as confirmed by sources'' List of Mount Everest summitters Unclear sources additional ''Cases of possible confusion over names, sources, or unclear references'' Adventure Consultants report on summits and people by 2016: *Da Jangbu Sherpa, Nepal, 13 summits *Pemba Chhoti Sherpa, Nepal, 11 summit *Kami Rita Sherpa, Nepal, 14 summits *Purba Chhoter Sherpa (Ang Jangbu), 8 summits *Chhewang Dorji Sherpa, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mount Everest Records
This article lists different records related to Mount Everest. One of the most commonly sought after records is a "summit", to reach the highest elevation point on Mount Everest. Records Highest number of times to reach the summit Other number of times records Most times per nation First to summit a certain number of times Double summiting records Fastest ascents *Pemba Dorje's Everest record has now been rejected by the Nepal Supreme Court, the Nepal Ministry of Tourism, and ''Guinness World Records''. Deadliest accident Oldest summiters This table shows the progression of the record for oldest male summiter, as well as some additional examples of aged summiters for comparison Tenzing Norgay was older than his climbing partner Sir Edmund Hillary, as the first confirmed climbers to reach the summit, they became the modern-day starting point for the oldest and youngest climbers respectively. This table shows the progression of the record for oldest female su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakpa Gelu
Lakpa Gelu ( ne, ल्हाक्पा घेलु) (born June 23, 1967), often spelled ''Lhakpa'', is a Nepalese Sherpa climber born in Jubing - 1, KhariKhola, Solukhumbu, Nepal. He is known for holding a world record for the fastest climbing of Mount Everest (the world's tallest mountain at 8,848 meters, known to the Nepalese as "Sagarmatha") in only 10 hours 56 minutes and 46 seconds. Gelu's record-breaking trip was his tenth trip to the summit of the mountain. Personal life Lhakpa Gelu was born around June 23, 1967 in the Solukhumbu of Nepal. The ethnic Sherpa community in Nepal does not record exact birth dates, though, so it is impossible to know his precise birth date. Lhakpa Gelu comes from a family of climbers. His older brother died in 1991 while climbing Annapurna, and his youngest brother has also climbed Mount Everest. He is married to Fulli and has three children.http://deseretsherpa.blogspot.com/ In December 2006, Lhakpa Gelu moved to Utah. Despite his mount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chhurim
Chhurim is a Nepali mountaineer and the first woman to climb Mount Everest twice in the same season, a feat which was verified by the ''Guinness Book of World Records'' in 2013. She accomplished this feat in 2012, climbing Everest on May 12 and May 19 of that year. "People have set different kinds of climbing records in Everest," said Chhurim, sitting on her living room couch directly beneath a string of certificates hung on the wall—the Guinness plaque included. "But no one has climbed twice within a week. So I just climbed with the sole motive of making a world record." "But for Chhurim, it was Pasang Lhamu Sherpa -- the first Nepalese woman to climb Everest (she died during her descent) -- who inspired the then fifth grader to sketch a future plan that most girls the same age couldn't conceive of." "To date, the total number of people who have successfully climbed Everest from the Nepalese side, according to the Expedition Department at the Ministry of Tourism, stands at 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apa Sherpa
Apa (born Lhakpa Tenzing Sherpa; 20 January 1960), nicknamed "Super Sherpa", is a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer who, until 2017, jointly with Phurba Tashi held the record for reaching the summit of Mount Everest more times than any other person. As part of The Eco Everest Expedition 2011, Apa made his 21st Mount Everest summit in May 2011 then retired after a promise to his wife to stop climbing after 21 ascents. He first summited Everest in 1990 and his last time to the summit was in 2011. Apa met Edmund Hillary many times, and was on the Expedition with his son Peter Hillary in 1990, which was the first summit for both of them. Apa estimates he has been through the Khumbu Icefall about 1000 times and almost went with Rob Hall's ill-fated 1996 expedition. When questioned about stopping at 21, Apa stated: "Everyone says 21 is a good number. I have to make my family happy. Every time I go, they worry because Everest is very risky." He was still the joint holder of the world record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan Romero
Jordan Romero (born July 12, 1996) is an American mountain climber who was 13 years old when he reached the summit of Mount Everest. Romero was accompanied by his father, Paul Romero, his step-mother, Karen Lundgren, and three Sherpas, Ang Pasang Sherpa, Lama Dawa Sherpa, and Lama Karma Sherpa. The previous record for youngest to climb Everest was held by Ming Kipa of Nepal who was 15 years old when she reached the summit on May 22, 2003. Upon successfully hiking the Vinson Massif in December 2011 at the age of 15 years, 5 months, 12 days, Romero became the youngest climber in the world to complete the Seven Summits (the highest mountains on each of the continents), a title previously held by George Atkinson. After this experience, Romero wrote a novel for children called ‘''No Summit Out Of Sight’''. Mountains climbed Romero is now trying to climb the highest point in each of the 50 US states. He had already climbed Denali in June 2008. (see also Peak bagging (Climbing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temba Tsheri
Temba Tsheri Sherpa ( ne, तेम्बा छिरी, born May 9, 1985) is a Sherpa from Rolwaling Valley, Dolkha, Nepal. On May 23, 2001, at the age of 16 years, he became the youngest person to climb Mount Everest. The youth, who was still in school, lost five fingers to frostbite while attempting to climb from the south side in 2000. He made his successful ascent from the north side (Tibet) of Mount Everest in 2001. Temba was climbing with the International Everest Expedition. In an interview in 2015 he noted that he had lost friends, equipment and houses as a result of the 2015 Nepal earthquakes. See also *List of Mount Everest records *List of world records from Nepal *Ming Kipa *Lhakpa Sherpa Lhakpa Sherpa (also Lakpa) ( ne, Lakhpa Sherpa; born 1973) is a Nepalese Sherpa mountain climber. She has climbed Mount Everest ten times, the most of any woman in the world. Her record-breaking tenth climb was on May 12, 2022, which she financ ... References Exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
