| Nor do I begrudge the jobs that Everesting has created for Sherpas, guides, cooks, porters, and writers like me. |
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| My sister, Barbara, a specialist in the Sherpas of Nepal, was attending this second meeting, and I drove into town for a visit. |
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| Today, Sherpas go well beyond their traditional duties of setting fixed lines at altitude and shuttling gear up unimaginable terrain. |
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| Yet the Sherpas did not climb this and other peaks until recruited as porters on sahibs' expeditions. |
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| The humble and cooperative Sherpas are available to guide way and techniques to climbers. |
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| Some Sherpas have developed skills in religious painting and in liturgical chanting. |
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| Sherpas first became prominent to Westerners as British mountaineers set their sights on conquering Himalayan peaks. |
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| The major ethnic groups include Newars, Indians, Tibetans, Gurungs, Magars, Tamangs, Bhotias, Rais, Limbus, and Sherpas. |
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| In order to safely move bottled oxygen and other supplies up to high camps, Sherpas put in fixed ropes. |
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| And that is a possibility, unless, as he faces Everest, McCreevy has something in his hip flask that only he and his Sherpas know about. |
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| The language of the Sherpas, called Sherpa or Sherpali, is a dialect of Tibetan, although it has borrowed heavily from neighboring languages. |
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| He collapsed after reaching the top of Everest and was left for dead above 8000 metres by Sherpas. |
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| A favorite beverage of the Sherpas is Chang, a beer made from maize, millet, or other grains. |
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| Other groups with their own traditions and culinary tastes include the Gurkhas and the Sherpas. |
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| An unprecedented joint team rescue effort was launched with Sherpas and westerners fighting to bring him back down. |
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| By the mid 1980s, Sherpas summitted Everest many more times than Westerners. |
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| Unlike Americans or Europeans, Himalayan Sherpas consider high-altitude climbing to be decidedly unglamorous, dangerous, dirty work. |
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| Many of the other Nepali Sherpas working on the mountain witnessed the avalanche as it covered their friends and fellow workers. |
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| Practically every satellite phone and radio had been stomped, shot, or stoned during the attack, but the Sherpas might carry one. |
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| The tragedy of 16 Sherpas killed was the biggest single loss of life in the history of climbing Everest. |
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| The large vigilante squad turned out to consist largely of Tibetan Buddhist Sherpas. |
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| Everest also boasts a well-established support infrastructure of guides and Sherpas who set up tents, fix ropes, and ferry canisters of supplemental oxygen to the high camps. |
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| Another group that has carved out an occupational niche for itself is the Sherpas, who are well known as guides and porters for mountain-climbing expeditions. |
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| Three Western climbers and ten Sherpas made it to the summit. |
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| Often inseparable from their association with world-class mountaineering, the Sherpas of Nepal inhabit much of the Solu-Khumbu or Khumbu regions of the Himalayas. |
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| But, according to Moro, some 100 Sherpas, their faces covered in scarves, were ready for the men. |
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| The Sherpas were also happy to eat muffins instead of mountain goat. |
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| However, ultimately, the summiteers take the lion's share of the credit and the Sherpas are left in the shadow, rues Rai, who has chronicled this in his film. |
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| The Sherpas are the toughest people in the Himalayas and they do all the donkey work for most of the climbing expeditions in the Nepal and Tibet areas. |
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| Already at the base camp, the first contingent of four officers and four sherpas has started climbing. |
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| Sherpas are known for their ability to tackle treacherous inclines almost as effortlessly as straight paths. |
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| Dubai Sherpas are not scared of heights, but are troubled by the apathy of the system back home. |
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| The Nepalese are just so hospitable and the Sherpas risk their live s to guide people through the mountains. |
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| Not only had she summited Everest five times, but she had also made an effort to know the sherpas who fix ropes on the mountain. |
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| High on the slopes of Everest, some 70 sherpas surged over a ridge to see the beating. |
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| The plan comes in the light of the deaths of many mountaineers, including Sherpas. |
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| Accenture has entered into an agreement to acquire Cloud Sherpas, a leader in cloud advisory and technology services specializing in Google, Salesforce and ServiceNow. |
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| Abu Zafar said Nepalese Sherpas had reached Camp 3 and found equipment such as crampons and ice axes which were vital for the climbers to surviving on the mountain. |
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| A generation ago, sherpas characterized her as the goddess of security. |
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| The Chinese climber, accompanied by six sherpas, is attempting to scale Everest while the US mountaineer is heading alone for neighbouring Lhotse peak. |
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