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Sherpa Culture
Sherpa may refer to: Ethnography * Sherpa people, an ethnic group in north eastern Nepal * Sherpa language Organizations and companies * Sherpa (association), a French network of jurists dedicated to promoting corporate social responsibility * Sherpa.ai, a Spanish artificial intelligence company * Sherpa Capital, an American venture capital firm * Sherpa (delivery service), an Australian courier company * SHERPA (organisation), a UK-based project team with expertise in open access and repositories ** SHERPA/RoMEO, a service to show copyright and policies of academic journals * Cloud Sherpas, an American cloud implementation and migration company, active 2008–2015 Transportation * Porter (carrier), often called a sherpa * Mountain guide, also sometimes called a sherpa * Leyland Sherpa, a light commercial vehicle produced from the 1970s until 2006 * Short C-23 Sherpa, a military variant of the Short 330 cargo aircraft, first flight was in 1982 * Short SB.4 Sherpa, an experi ... [...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] |
Sherpa Light
The Sherpa Light is a family of 4x4 tactical and light armored vehicles developed by French company Renault Trucks, Renault Trucks Defense (RTD). Available in unarmoured or armoured variants (ballistic, mine and IED kits), the Scout is suited for tactical missions such as scouting, patrol, convoy escort and command and liaison. It is able to transport up to 4 or 5 soldiers or a total payload of up to 4 tonnes. The Sherpa family is also available to customers in North America and Oceania via Mack Trucks, Mack Defense. History The Sherpa 2/3 was officially unveiled to the public at Eurosatory 2006 in Paris. with first production models made in 2007. In 2010, it changed the name from Sherpa 2 and 3 to Light. The Sherpa Light was shown in Asia in the BRIDEX 2011 convention alongside the VAB Mk II in Brunei on July 28, 2011. On October 26, 2011, Pindad showed off an Indonesian-made version of the Sherpa known as the Elang during a public exhibition event. Mack Defense unveiled the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yahoo Sherpa
Sherpa is Yahoo!'s next-generation cloud storage platform. It is a hosted, distributed, and geographically replicated key-value data store. The service is a NoSQL system that has been developed by Yahoo!, to address scalability, availability, and latency needs of the conglomerate’s websites. Sherpa has abilities such as elastic growth, multi-tenancy, global footprint for local low-latency access, asynchronous replication, representational state transfer (REST) based web service APIs, novel per-record consistency knobs, high availability, compression, secondary indexes, and record-level replication. Architecture Sherpa is a multi-tenant system. An application can store data in a table, which is a collection of records. A table is shared into smaller pieces called tablets. Data is shared based on the hash value of the key, or range partitioned. Tablets are stored on nodes referred to as storage units. A software routing layer keeps track of mapping between applications tabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherpa (political Consultant)
A sherpa is an experienced Washington D.C. political consultant brought on to guide an administration's nominee to Senate approval. History of the usage Sherpa is a word taken from the language of the Sherpa, a nomadic people of the Himalayas. It literally means "people of the East." The English word "sherpa" originally referred to people hired as porters and guides by climbers of the Himalayan Mountains. Sherpas have a long history of helping to navigate difficult mountain terrain. Senate confirmation has been compared to mountain climbing, dangerous and exhausting. Like the Himalayan climbers, nominees need guides "through the obstacle course of interviews and hearings." Role of the sherpa Supreme Court and top cabinet post nominations have become increasingly partisan and contentious. Nominees for these positions now have designated sherpas with extensive political experience and are reliable. Sub-cabinet nominees are generally handled by department level political staff. p. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherpa Peak
Sherpa Peak is an granite summit located in the Stuart Range, in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness in Chelan County of Washington state. According to the USGS, this peak is "named for a local climbing club" that was "active in the area since the 1950s." In the 1953, a Tibetan-born Sherpa named Tenzing Norgay was the first to summit Mt. Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary. The nearest higher peak is Mount Stuart, to the west, and Argonaut Peak lies to the east. The Sherpa Glacier lies on the northern slope of the peak. Precipitation runoff from the peak drains north into Mountaineer Creek, a tributary of Icicle Creek, or south into Ingalls Creek, all of which winds up in the Wenatchee River. Climate Most weather fronts originate in the Pacific Ocean, and travel east toward the Cascade Mountains. As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks of the Cascade Range, causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall onto the Cascades (Orographic lift). As a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherpa Glacier
Sherpa Glacier is east of Mount Stuart and north of Sherpa Peak, in the U.S. state of Washington. According to the USGS, this glacier is "named for a mountaineering club active in the area since the 1950s." Sherpa Glacier is within the Alpine Lakes Wilderness of Wenatchee National Forest. The glacier is approximately in length, in width at its widest and descends from , where it terminates as an icefall. Less than to the northwest lies Stuart Glacier. See also *List of glaciers in the United States This is a list of glaciers existing in the United States, currently or in recent centuries. These glaciers are located in nine states, all in the Rocky Mountains or farther west. The southernmost named glacier among them is the Lilliput Glacier ... References Glaciers of the North Cascades Glaciers of Chelan County, Washington Glaciers of Washington (state) {{Washington-glacier-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherpa Fire
The Sherpa Fire was a wildfire that burned in the Santa Ynez Mountains along the Gaviota Coast in the southwestern part of Santa Barbara County, California in June 2016. In a matter of hours the fire spread to over as the fire was propelled by downslope sundowner winds. This offshore northerly wind contrasts with the more typical onshore flow and sent the fire down the canyons towards the ocean with gusts of over . The wildfire resulted in evacuations at two state beach campgrounds and some residences together with intermittent interruption of traffic on a state transportation route. Events The fire was first reported shortly before 4:00pm on Wednesday June 15, 2016 in the Los Padres National Forest in an area that includes private inholdings. In a matter of hours the fire had grown to over . According to the United States Forest Service, the fire was propelled by downslope sundowner winds which sent the fire down canyons in the Santa Ynez Mountains with gusts of over . These ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherpa (film)
''Sherpa'' is a 2015 documentary film by Australian filmmaker Jennifer Peedom. It was filmed during the 2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche. Synopsis ''Sherpa'' focuses on Phurba Tashi, a Sherpa who has made 21 Mount Everest ascents and leads the team for New Zealander Russell Brice's expedition company, Himex. Tashi's wife and family in Khumjung do not want him to keep risking his life climbing just for the money. The film explores some of the Sherpa culture and their spiritual relationship with the mountain, as well as the heavy work and risks Sherpas take in making multiple ascents to take equipment and supplies up the mountain and make the climb possible for foreign climbers. After the ice avalanche kills 16 Sherpas, the focus shifts to the differing perspectives and understandings of the various groups in the following days. The Sherpas stage a protest meeting and most do not want to climb - some out of respect for the dead and others in order to push for better working con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherpa (fabric)
Sherpa is a fabric with a pile on one side and flat on the other side. Structure Sherpa is a curly piled fabric structure made of synthetic yarns like acrylic or polyester. The texture is soft and fluffy, useful in jackets resembling wool or sheepskin on the piled side. Sherpa fleece is a knitted type of fabric usable in line clothing and winter wear. History It was Collins & Aikman (An American manufacturer of decorative fabrics and automotive supplies) who developed this fabric in the first place. Sherpa was the registered trademark of the company.''The company also developed “ Sherpa , ” a lamb's - woollike material that has gained considerable success as a lining ''Textile Leaders of the South - Page 265books.google.co.in › books [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherpa (emissary)
A sherpa is the personal representative of a head of state or head of government who prepares an international summit, such as the annual G7 and G20 summits. Between the G7 summits there are multiple sherpa conferences where possible agreements are laid out. This reduces the amount of time and resources required at the negotiations of the heads of state at the final summit. The name sherpa—without further context—refers to sherpas for the G7 summit, but the designation can be extended to different regular conferences where the participation of the head of state is required. The sherpa is generally quite influential, although they do not have the authority to make a final decision about any given agreement. The name is derived from the Sherpa people, a Nepalese ethnic group, who serve as guides and porters in the Himalayas, a reference to the fact that the sherpa clears the way for a head of state at a major summit. European Union In the European Union, the name was originall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agelena Sherpa
''Agelena sherpa'' is a species of spider in the family Agelenidae, which contains at least 1,350 species of funnel-web spiders . It was first described by Nishikawa, in 1980. It is primarily found in Nepal. References sherpa Sherpa may refer to: Ethnography * Sherpa people, an ethnic group in north eastern Nepal * Sherpa language Organizations and companies * Sherpa (association), a French network of jurists dedicated to promoting corporate social responsibility * ... Spiders described in 1980 Arthropods of Nepal Spiders of Asia {{Agelenidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SHERPA (space Tug)
SHERPA is a commercial satellite dispenser developed by Andrews Space, a subsidiary of Spaceflight Industries, and was unveiled in 2012. The maiden flight was on 3 December 2018 on a rocket, and it consisted of two separate unpropelled variants of the dispenser. Riding atop the launcher's final stage, SHERPA's release follows deployment of the primary mission payload for the dispensing of minisatellites, microsatellites, or s such as |
