Nepal’s Sherpa community is mourning the passing at age 86 of their revered and beloved high lama, Nawang Tenzin Zangbu, the Rimpoche of Tengboche, a monastery at the lap of Mt Everest. The Rimpoche ...

Nawang Sherpa died because he refused to abandon his ailing, befuddled client near the summit of Everest. Nawang received no recognition for his sacrifice. Jon Mills, a UK climber on a different ...

Nawang Gombu was also a member of the team which saw Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary reach the summit of Mt. Everest in 1953, making him the youngest climbing Sherpa, at the age of 16.

The first man to scale Mount Everest twice, Nawang Gombu, one of the famed "Tigers of the Snows" has died at his home in Darjeeling, India. He was 79. Gombu, the youngest member of the Sherpa team ...