A Mount Everest avalanche last week that killed 16 Sherpas — professional Nepalese mountaineers paid to assist recreational climbers — caps off the worst three-year period for Sherpas in ...

Gupta’s personal experience with the Sherpas revealed that during a mountaineering expedition, he had been abandoned by his Sherpa at a particularly perilous moment. This experience forced him ...

But Indigenous highlanders living on the Tibetan Plateau, known as Sherpas, have inhabited the high Himalaya long enough to have an evolutionary edge at tolerating elevation compared with ...