Nepal's Sherpa community has made an unmatched contribution to Himalayan mountaineering since Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa successfully climbed Mount Everest on 29 May 1953. There is ...

Renowned climber Lakpa Sherpa has successfully summited Mt Makalu (8,485 meters) for the eighth time. He also led the rope-fixing team to the top, officially opening the route to the world's fifth ...

CEO Lakpa Sherpa confirmed that the client was evacuated to the hospital. "It was not an airlift but a serious medical evacuation," he explained to ExplorersWeb. In any case, these airlifts are ...

Our Everest correspondent recently attended a pre-climb meeting held by guiding company Seven Summit Treks in downtown ...

Tashi Lakpa Sherpa, a world record-holding Nepalese mountaineer and expedition operator, acknowledged Nepal was willing to look the other way on some regulations. "[It will never be] very ...

At the sight of the shrouded forms, Lakpa Rita sat and wept. “I tried to hide my tears from my Sherpa team, but I couldn’t keep them in,” he said. When he could look under the tent fly ...

“Congratulations, Nima! Your journey continues to inspire us all,” Nima’s father, Tashi Lakpa Sherpa, managing director of Seven Summit Treks, Nepal’s largest expedition company, wrote on ...

The 54-year-old legendary mountaineer reached the 8,849-metre peak at 7:49 am local time, according to Tashi Lakpa Sherpa, Chief Executive Officer at the 14 Peaks Expedition high-altitude sports ...

A Sherpa scaled Mount Everest in 10 hours and 56 minutes, setting a new record for the fastest climb of the world's highest mountain. Lakpa Gyelu, 35, broke a record set by fellow Sherpa guide ...