Licensed guides like Ang Dawa Sherpa lead parties of trekkers on everything from sightseeing jaunts to attempts on the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal’s Himalaya Mountains. While tourists are allowed ...
NAMCHE BAZAAR, Nepal -- By this time next month, Kancha Sherpa will, once again, become a busy man. At 79, he is the last man living among the 103 guides who accompanied the famous mountaineer Sir ...
A pair of Himalayan tahr run down a mountainside on the way to Everest Base Camp in Sagarmatha National Park. Tahr are among the many sacred features of the Khumbu homeland of Sherpa people, which ...