Appa Sherpa

Appa Sherpa

male, 49 years old
Apa, often erroneously referred to as Apa Sherpa or Lhakpa Tenzing Sherpa, is a Nepali sherpa. He was born between 1960 - 1962, in the village of...
Pemba Doma Sherpa

Pemba Doma Sherpa

female, deceased (2007)
Pemba Doma Sherpa (7 July 1970 -22 May 2007) was the first Nepali female mountaineer to climb Mount Everest via its north face, was the second...
Babu Chiri Sherpa

Babu Chiri Sherpa

male, deceased (2001)
Babu Chiri Sherpa (died April 29, 2001) was a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer. He was born in a small village of Takshindu, in the Everest region of...
Pasang Lhamu Sherpa

Pasang Lhamu Sherpa

female, deceased (1983) (Nepal)
Pasang Lhamu Sherpa was the first Nepali woman to climb the summit of Mount Everest. She was born into a mountaineering family and was involved in...
Nawang Sherpa

Nawang Sherpa

male
Nawang Sherpa became the first person to climb Mount Everest with a prosthetic leg by reaching the summit on May 16, 2004 (see Mount Everest...
Dachhiri Sherpa

Dachhiri Sherpa

male
Dachhiri Sherpa(March 11, 1969) is a cross-country skier who was the sole athlete from Nepal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. In the Men's 15 km...
Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary

male, deceased (2008) (New Zealand)
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE (born 20 July 1919) is a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing...
Tenzing Norgay

Tenzing Norgay (Sherpa Tenzing)

male, deceased (1986)
Tenzing Norgay GM (May 1914 - 9 May 1986), often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer. He and Edmund Hillary were the...
Ed Viesturs

Ed Viesturs

male, 50 years old
Ed Viesturs (born June 22, 1959) is one of the world's premier high-altitude mountaineers. He is the first American, and 12th person overall, to...
Rob Hall

Rob Hall

male
Rob Hall (1961 - May 11, 1996), New Zealander, was a mountaineer best known for being head guide of a 1996 Mount Everest expedition in which he, a...