Sherpa (also Sharpa, Sherwa, or Xiaerba) is a Tibetic language spoken in Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim, mainly by the Sherpa. The majority speakers...

celibate monastery in Solu-Khumbu. The Sherpa language belongs to the southern branch of the Tibeto-Burman languages, mixed with Eastern Tibetan (Khams Tibetan)...

Sherpa may refer to: Sherpa people, an ethnic group in north eastern Nepal and Tibet Sherpa language, the Tibetan language of the Sherpa people Sherpa...

(/ˈtɛnzɪŋ ˈnɔːrɡeɪ/; Sherpa: བསྟན་འཛིན་ནོར་རྒྱས tendzin norgyé; May 1914 – 9 May 1986), born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian...

Sherpa is a 2015 documentary film by Australian filmmaker Jennifer Peedom. It was filmed during the 2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche. Sherpa focuses on...

Lhakpa Sherpa (Nepali: Lakhpa Sherpa; born 1973) is a Nepalese Sherpa mountain climber. She has climbed Mount Everest ten times, the most by any woman...

Sherpa is a surname originating from the Himalayan region. The name derives from the Sherpa language words ཤར shar ("east") and པ pa ("people"), which...

Dzongkha, Cha Su-kan or "gur gur cha" in the Ladakhi language and Su Chya or Phe Chya in the Sherpa language, is a drink of the people in the Himalayan regions...

Yolmo (Hyolmo) or Helambu Sherpa, is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Hyolmo people of Nepal (ISO 639-3: scp, GlottoCode: yolm1234). Yolmo is spoken predominantly...

Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa is a 2023 American documentary film directed by Lucy Walker. It follows Lhakpa Sherpa as she climbs and survives ten...

Nepal. Its name, Kusum Kanguru, means "Three Snow-White Gods" in the Sherpa language, which refers to the triple summit of the mountain. The main north-south...

Daughter" in Sherpa language, was named by George Mallory. "Pumo" means young girl or daughter and "Ri" means mountain in Sherpa language. Climbers sometimes...

Tenjen Sherpa (1987/1988 – 7 October 2023), also known as Tenjen Lama Sherpa, was a Nepalese mountaineer who climbed all 14 eight-thousander together...

Kami Rita (कामीरिता शेर्पा; January 1970) is a Nepali Sherpa guide who holds the record for most ascents to the summit of Mount Everest. He has held the...

region. The Sino-Tibetan languages include Tamang, Newari, Magar language, Gurung language, Kiranti languages and Sherpa language and are often spoken in...

Nuptse or Nubtse (Sherpa: ནུབ་རྩེ། नुबचे, Wylie: Nub rtse, Chinese: 努子峰) is a mountain in the Khumbu region of the Mahalangur Himal, in the Nepalese Himalayas...

or Gangri (literally: The Snowy Mountain) (Sherpa: གངས་རི།, Wylie: Gangs ri) is the first Sherpa language movie which was released in 2052 Bs (1996) in...

language, a misnomer for several languages: Bhotia language or Sherpa language Bhutia language or Sikkimese language Dzongkha, the official language of...

Pasang Lhamu Sherpa (Sherpa: པ་སངས་ལྷ་མོ་ཤར་པ།, Nepali: पासाङ ल्हामु शेर्पा; 10 December 1961 – 22 April 1993) was the first Nepalese woman to climb the...

Languages of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians and the Dravidian languages...

An endangered language is a language that is at a risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native...

Sungdare Sherpa (Nepali: सुन्दरे शेर्पा) 1956 Thame village, Solukhumbu – 1989 Pangboche) was a Nepalese Sherpa guide for climbers of Mount Everest, who...

A Sardar or Sirdar is a Sherpa mountain guide who manages all the other Sherpas in a climbing expedition or trekking group; Sirdar is the most common...

Gyalje Sherpa, Nirmal Purja, Gelje Sherpa, Mingma David Sherpa, Mingma Tenzi Sherpa, Dawa Temba Sherpa, Pem Chhiri Sherpa, Kilu Pemba Sherpa, Dawa Tenjing...

and religious practice from Sunuwars and Sherpas when they began to live and share with them. The language they use is the most powerful evidence that...

Lachung River Native name Lachung Chu (Sherpa) Location Country India State Sikkim Physical characteristics Source Himalayas  • location Himalayas, Sikkim...

Gorkhali is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Himalayas region of South Asia. It is the official and most widely spoken language of Nepal, where it also...

Lhokha, Tö, Kongpo (in （Kongpo） with Basum) South-Western: Sherpa and Jirel; other languages/dialects along the Sino-Nepalese border: Humla, Mugu, Dolpo...

glacier in winter. The river is known as Chukchuwa in the local Limbu language. The study has shown that this place was originally inhabited by Yakkha...

Nima Rinji Sherpa (Nepali: निमा रिन्जी शेर्पा): (born 2006) is a Nepalese mountaineer recognized by the Guinness World Records as the youngest person to...