The following story is based on Business Insider's short film about Sherpas, an ethnic group known for their mountaineering prowess on Mount ... in mountain guiding, especially on Everest, is ...

"For a foreigner, a Sherpa ... mountain region of the eastern Himalaya. About 3,000 of Nepal's more than 10,000 Sherpas reside in the Khumbu valley, the gateway to the southern side of Mount Everest.

Ngima Nuru Sherpa is small ... in the annals of Mount Everest. The 5-foot-7, 150-pound native of Nepal’s Khumbu region has reached the summit of the world’s tallest mountain two dozen times ...

Nepal’s veteran summiteer Kami Rita Sherpa made history ... Kami, a senior mountain guide at the 14 Peaks Expedition and Seven Summit Treks, climbed Mt Everest for the first time in May 1994 ...

The price of a permit to climb the world’s highest peak will rise 36 percent later this year. Guides believe that climbers will still flock to the mountain. If the fee structure is made official ...

Mount Everest's Sherpas are considering a climbing boycott following the deadliest avalanche in the mountain's history. Several Sherpas have already quit, while others are still mulling over a boycott ...

Kancha Sherpa was one of 103 Sherpas that brought Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to the top of Mt. Everest in 1953, as the first to reach the top. This achievement would have been ...

and International Mountain Guides would meet the requirements of a guide. Sherpas on the Summit of Mount Everest / John Waechter Such new regulations further dampen the romance and purity of ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35 ... Climbers returning from the Everest say the mountain is becoming increasingly dry and rocky with less snow or ...

In the latest episode of the podcast, the Catalan mountain runner and all-around superhuman shares the story of how in May 2017, he did the unthinkable: he summited Mount Everest. Twice.