Sherpa may refer to:
Ethnography
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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") ...
, an ethnic group in north eastern Nepal
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Sherpa language
Organizations and companies
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Sherpa (association)
Sherpa is a French law association, founded in 2001. Sherpa carries out advocacy, strategic litigation, legal research and capacity building activities, in order to strengthen economic actors’ accountability and build up a legal framework that ...
, a French network of jurists dedicated to promoting corporate social responsibility
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Sherpa.ai
Sherpa (also known as Sherpa.ai) is a Spanish artificial intelligence company specializing in predictive conversational digital assistants. It was founded by Xabi Uribe-Etxebarria in 2012 and is based in Erandio and Silicon Valley. In 2018, '' ...
, a Spanish artificial intelligence company
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Sherpa Capital
Sherpa Capital is an American venture capital firm established in March 2013 by Shervin Pishevar and Scott Stanford. Based in San Francisco, CA, Sherpa Capital specializes in early stage and growth startups ranging from e-commerce to technology.
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, an American venture capital firm
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Sherpa (delivery service), an Australian courier company
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SHERPA (organisation), a UK-based project team with expertise in open access and repositories
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SHERPA/RoMEO
SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access) is an organisation originally set up in 2002 to run and manage the SHERPA Project.
History
SHERPA began as an endeavour to support the establishment of a number of open ...
, a service to show copyright and policies of academic journals
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Cloud Sherpas, an American cloud implementation and migration company, active 2008–2015
Transportation
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Porter (carrier)
A porter, also called a bearer, is a person who carries objects or cargo for others. The range of services conducted by porters is extensive, from shuttling luggage aboard a train (a railroad porter) to bearing heavy burdens at altitude in i ...
, often called a sherpa
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Mountain guide, also sometimes called a sherpa
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Leyland Sherpa Leyland may refer to:
Places
* Leyland, Lancashire, an English town
** Leyland Hundred, an hundred of Lancashire, England
* Leyland, Alberta, a community in Canada
Companies
* Leyland Line, a shipping company
Automotive manufacturers
* Le ...
, a light commercial vehicle produced from the 1970s until 2006
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Short C-23 Sherpa, a military variant of the Short 330 cargo aircraft, first flight was in 1982
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Short SB.4 Sherpa
The Short SB.4 Sherpa was an experimental aircraft designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Short Brothers. Only a single example was ever produced.
The Sherpa was developed during the 1950s for the purpose of testing a nove ...
, an experimental British aircraft whose first flight was in 1955
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Super Sherpa, a 250 cc dual-purpose motorcycle produced by Kawasaki
* A series of military trucks produced by Renault Trucks Defense, including the
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 ...
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UP Sherpa Bi, a German paraglider design
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SHERPA (space tug), a kick start space tug and satellite dispenser
Other uses
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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 re ...
'', a spider of family Agelenidae
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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 ...
, the personal representative of a head of state or government in the G20 or G7
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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 s ...
, a fabric with a pile on one side
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''Sherpa'' (film), a 2015 documentary film
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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 d ...
, a 2016 wildfire that burned in Santa Barbara County, California
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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 Lake ...
, an alpine glacier in Washington state
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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 19 ...
, a mountain in Washington state
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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. ...
, a political consultant guiding a nominee to Senate confirmation
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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, ...
, a distributed key value datastore developed by Yahoo!
See also
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Sherpur (disambiguation)
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