[ noun ] a member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers <noun.person>
I get on an elevator and total strangers tell me, `Keep the faith."' Two Americans and their Sherpa guide died in an avalanche more than halfway up the world's seventh-highest mountain on the Nepal-Tibet border, the Tourism Ministry said Thursday.
BOMBARDIER'S Short Brothers subsidiary in Belfast will supply 20 Sherpa C-23 aircraft worth CDollars 130m (Pounds 64m) to the American armed forces, for delivery over the next three years.
Two U.S. mountaineers and a Sherpa guide, part of an American expedition climbing the world's sixth highest peak, are missing and believed dead, Nepalese authorities said Friday.
"This is the greatest event in the history of climbing," said Kunga Sherpa, leader of one of the Nepalese base camp setups.