T. Imanishi ( Japan ) and Gyalzen Norbu ( Sherpa ) made the first ascent of Manaslu on May 9, 1956.

As of June 2007, Bongo, along with President Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of the Congo, Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea and José Eduardo dos Santos from Angola was being investigated by the French magistrates after the complaint made by French NGOs Survie and Sherpa due to claims that he has used millions of pounds of embezzled public funds to acquire lavish properties in France.

On 12 May 1973, John Roskelley and Louis Reichardt made the first American ascent of Dhaulagiri with Nawang Samden Sherpa.

The second ascent was made in the spring of 1984 by Wyman Culbreth and Ang Kami Sherpa, via a new route on a ridge on the southwest face.

The first ascent was made on May 17th 1937 by a five-man British expedition, with Freddie Spencer Chapman and Sherpa Pasang Dawa Lama ( of the American K2 expedition fame ) reaching the summit from Bhutan over the southeast spur.

Sherpa ( Tibetan: ཤར ་ པ ། " eastern people ", from shar " east " + pa " people ") are an ethnic group from the most mountainous region of Nepal, high in the Himalayas.

About 1840 Sherpa ancestors migrated from Kham.

On the other hand, Gautam ( 1994 ) concluded that Sherpa migrated from Tibet approximately 600 years ago, through the Nangpala pass.

Another woman Sherpa who is well known is the two-time Everest summiteer Pemba Doma Sherpa, who died after falling from Lhotse on 22 May 2007.

Raymond Lambert ( 18 October 1914 – 25 February 1997 ) was a Swiss mountaineer, who with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached an altitude of 8611 metres ( just 237 metres from the summit ) of Mount Everest in May 1952.

Closer to Tibet, the Bhutias ( also spelt Bhotias ), akin to the Sherpa group, of Tibetan ethnicity dominate the scene as can be discerned from their flat roofed houses, and they are distinctly Buddhists.

On the night of 13 / 14 November 2006, a large serac collapse occurred from the hanging glacier, which swept away several tents at Camp 3, killing six climbers ( 3 European, 3 Sherpa ).

In addition, the monks and Sherpa community with help from the Sir Edmund Hillary and Himalayan Trust, the American Himalayan Heritage Foundation and many international well-wishers have put in their support in several ways.

He is most famous for his May 23, 1996 solo ascent of Mount Everest without bottled oxygen or Sherpa support, travelling only by bicycle from Sweden and back.

37 Soldiers from the 57 < sup > th </ sup > EN CO exited a C-23 Sherpa over Luzon Tree Drop Zone, located in Fort Bragg, NC.

Phu Dorjee Sherpa, a climbing instructor from the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute and his partner fell from the vicinity of the final ice field.

Temba Tsheri is a Sherpa from Dolkha, Nepal.

The Subaru Rex, also known as Ace, Viki, Sherpa, 500 / 600 / 700, Mini Jumbo or M60 / M70 / M80 in various export markets, is a kei class automobile produced from 1972 to 1992 mainly for sale in Japan by Subaru, although it was also sold in Europe, South America, and the Caribbean.

* The highest point measured from sea level is the summit of Mount Everest that borders Nepal and China, and has been reached by roughly 3, 000 climbers, first in 1953 by Tenzing Norgay Sherpa of nepal and Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand ( with speculation that it may have been reached in 1924 ).

The summit was eventually reached at 11: 30 am on 29 May 1953 by the New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay from Nepal ( Norgay had previously ascended to a record mark on Everest with a Swiss expedition of 1952 ).

Up until early 2006, LDV produced the Convoy and Pilot, derived from the venerable British Leyland Sherpa, and developed considerably throughout the 1970s – 90s, and which are a common sight in the UK.

In the higher altitudes, you can find Sherpa people where they arrived from Tibet more than four hundred years ago.

Terray did not reach the summit of Annapurna, but together with the Sherpa Adjiba he aided summitteers Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal down from the mountain.

Among his notable creations were " The Sherpa from Intimida, A Mighty Big Car ", an SUV that is so large it affected the weather, and Genway, " the supermarket for genetically engineered foods.

* Leyland Sherpa, a light commercial vehicle produced from the 1970s until 2006

Sherpa clothing resembles Tibetan clothing.

Ama Dablam means " Mother's necklace "; the long ridges on each side like the arms of a mother ( ama ) protecting her child, and the hanging glacier thought of as the dablam, the traditional double-pendant containing pictures of the gods, worn by Sherpa women.

The Center, set up with community participation, was built in traditional Sherpa style.

The village is a popular centre for walking, climbing, mountaineering, mountain biking and other outdoor pursuits and is served by the Sherpa bus network.

Many Sherpa people also now wear ready-made western clothing.

The broader area of ethnic Tibet also includes to the east, parts of the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Gansu and Yunnan ; to the west, the Indian regions of Ladakh, Lahul and Spiti and the Baltistan region of Pakistan ; to the south, Bhutan, Sikkim, parts of northern Nepal, the Mustang, Dolpo, Sherpa and Tamang regions of eastern Nepal and the extreme north-west of Assam.

Most Sherpa people live in Nepal's eastern regions ; however, some live farther west in the Rolwaling valley and in the Helambu region north of Kathmandu.

In UK cave diving, the term " Sherpa " is used without a drop of irony for the people who carry the diver's gear although recently this has gone out of fashion ; support is now more normally used, and before the development of SCUBA equipment such undertakings could be monumental operations.

Currently there are two manufacturers of dual-track snowmobiles ; Russia's Buran and the Italian Alpina Snowmobiles ( under the name Sherpa ).

* 1975 Mount Everest ( south-west face ), successful, summit reached by Doug Scott, Dougal Haston, Peter Boardman, Pertemba Sherpa and Mick Burke ; death of Burke

Selected ethnic groups of Nepal ; < FONT COLOR =" 660000 "> Bhotia </ FONT >, < FONT COLOR =" 660000 "> Sherpa people | Sherpa </ FONT >, < FONT COLOR =" 660000 "> Thakali </ FONT >, < FONT COLOR =" green "> Gurung </ FONT >, < FONT COLOR =" blue "> Kiranti / Kirat ( Rai people | Rai, Sunuwar, Yakkha, Limbu people | Limbu ) </ FONT >, < FONT COLOR =" red "> Newar people | Newari </ FONT >, < FONT COLOR =" ffcc33 "> Pahari languages | Pahari </ FONT >, < FONT COLOR =" 333366 "> Tamang </ FONT >

He has summited peaks of over 8, 000 meters on 21 occasions, including Mount Everest seven times ; only two other climbers, Phurba Tashi Sherpa Mendewa and Juanito Oiarzabal, have more high-altitude ascents.

* Bun Manchi-Nepali for " jungle man " that is used outside Sherpa communities where yeti is the common name.

The railway station is also a bus interchange used by the Snowdonia National Park Sherpa bus services to Capel Curig, Pen-y-Gwryd, Pen-y-Pass, Beddgelert, Porthmadog, Tryfan and Bethesda.

Noted mountaineer and mountain writer H. Adams Carter was also on the expedition, which was notable for its small scale and lightweight ethic: it included only seven climbers, and used no fixed ropes, nor any Sherpa support above.

There was also a diesel version of this capacity, used in the Leyland Sherpa van, and built under license in Turkey for many years.

This type of flush inlet generally cannot achieve the larger ram pressures and flow volumes of an external design, and so is rarely used for the jet engine intake application for which it was originally designed, such as the North American YF-93 and Short SB. 4 Sherpa.