| A Nepalese sherpa guide has once again broken his own record, scaling Mount Everest for the 19th time. |
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| From 2006 to 2008 he was seconded to the office of the Italian prime minister as G8 sherpa and principal adviser for EU and international affairs, before returning to the Commission in 2008 as director for Latin America. |
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| In a nod to the rest of the world's impatience with the number of Europeans in the G20, the two presidents have agreed to share a sherpa, and to sit behind a single name-plate at the table. |
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| Among some of the most inspiring photographs of Everest I have ever seen, there are pictures of the local people and of the legendary sherpa Tenzing. |
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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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| The smaller panel van, once called the 200 and based on the old Freight Rover Sherpa, the Pilot sports a new front end and a new name. |
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| Sherpa villages cling to the sides of sheer mountain slopes or sit on top of steep escarpments. |
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| Babu and I wander into the sanctuary, looking at chest-high tablets inscribed with epitaphs for both Sherpa and foreign climbers. |
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| He had punched his ticket as a climbing Sherpa, but the next challenge was to make his mark on Everest. |
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| The Sherpa diet is dominated by starchy foods, supplemented by vegetables, spices, and occasionally meat. |
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| Both these book are essential reading for those interested in Sherpa society and in Himalayan mountaineering. |
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| One of his dependents is a retired Sherpa guide, a strong-featured man, who acts as doorman and guard for the museum. |
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| Two members of British Everest party led by Sir John Hunt, Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, became the first to climb the hitherto unconquered peak. |
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| But in 1958 he got the chance to attend the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling, run at the time by Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa who summited Everest with Hillary. |
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| So Captain Sherpa locally and NATO nationally have a vast job on their hands, which means you'll see this for years to come, foreign soldiers on Afghan streets. |
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| Sherpa guides are employed by local trekking agencies that work in partnership with foreign companies. |
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| In the forager-farmer communities of Rai and Sherpa in Eastern Nepal, wild plants flourish in open areas as a buffer against food shortages. |
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| These headlamps, Sher realized, belonged to a team of Sherpa descending to base camp. |
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| The Sherpa accused the westerner of knocking off ice to hit the Sherpa below. |
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| A team of rescue Sherpa evacuated the two men down through the towering seracs and debris to Base Camp where they were quickly flown to Kathmandu by helicopter. |
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| There are less numbers of Sherpa who are continuing the mountaineering tradition,'' said Ang Tshering, of the Nepal Mountaineering Association. |
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| Kenton and Sherpa Dorje Gylgen were midway through their world-first six-day summiting of Himalayan giants Nuptse, Everest and Lhotse. |
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| The Sherpa strike left you with no highest mountain to climb? |
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| Sadly one Sherpa, from another team, has now been killed in the Icefall. |
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| When they reached the summit of Everest in May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay cemented a bond that would last to the grave. |
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| But its crowdedness and competitiveness make it the Everest to L. A.'s Kilimanjaro: you practically need a Sherpa to tackle New York effectively, and you just might lose a digit or limb. |
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| On the final peak, Chhubohe at 5,640m, he was joined by Bug Wrightson, a freelance outdoor activities leader and supported by Pasang Sherpa and Tendi Sherpa. |
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| I reread the names of those who eventually conquered Everest 60 years ago and left their signatures on the ceiling, including the summiteers Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing. |
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| Those who attempt the summit are experienced climbers who will tackle other Himalayan peaks as well, said Dawa Steven Sherpa, two-time summiteer of Everest from Kathmandu. |
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| It took 10,000 lbs of baggage and supplies, 362 porters and 20 Sherpa guides for Sir Edmund Hillary and Tibetan climber Tenzing Norgay to become the highest humans on Earth. |
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| The ground search to locate Osamu Tanabe, 49, Toshio Yamamoto, 36, Daisuke Honda, 32, and their Sherpa guide Pasang Gelu Sherpa, 47, was halted Sunday after five days. |
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| It is led by two-time Everest Summiteer Dawa Steven Sherpa, a passionate advocate of climate change issues who has also seen the impact of climate change on the Himalayas. |
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