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Usha Chilukuri was born in a suburb of San Diego, California, [1] to Telugu-speaking Indian immigrants. [4] [5] Her father is a mechanical engineer from IIT Madras and a lecturer at San Diego State University, [6] [7] and her mother is a molecular biologist and provost at the University of California, San Diego. [8]
Sherpa is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. Sherpa (also Sharpa, Sherwa, or Xiaerba) is a Tibetic language spoken in Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim, mainly by the Sherpa. The majority speakers of the Sherpa language live in the Khumbu region of Nepal, spanning from the Chinese (Tibetan ...
978-1788403320. Sherpa: Stories of Life and Death from the Forgotten Guardians of Everest is a 2022 narrative non-fiction book by Nepali authors Pradeep Bashyal and Ankit Babu Adhikari. [1] [2] It was first published by Cassel, an imprint of Octopus Publishing Group, UK on 28 July 2022. The book is an oral history that unveils the untold ...
The Sherpas (Standard Tibetan: ཤར་པ་, romanized: shar pa) are one of the Tibetan ethnic groups native to the most mountainous regions of Nepal and Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. The term sherpa derives from the Tibetan-language words shar (ཤར, 'east') and pa (པ 'people'), which refer to their geographical origin in eastern ...
Officials are calling Friday's avalanche on Mount Everest the deadliest day on the mountain in history. At least 12 Sherpa guides were killed. According to Al Jazeera, investigators say the Sherpa ...
[need quotation to verify] [7] According to many later accounts, including a book co-written by his son Jamling Tenzin Norgay, he was born in Tibet, [8] [9] at Tse Chu in the Kama Valley, and grew up in Thame. [10] He spent his early childhood in Kharta, near the north of the country. Norgay went to Nepal as a child to work for a Sherpa family ...
A common format for biblical citations is Book chapter:verses, using a colon to delimit chapter from verse, as in: "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth" ( Gen. 1:1 ). Or, stated more formally, [2] [3] [4] [a] book chapter:verse1,verse2 for multiple disjoint verses ( John 6:14, 44 ). The range delimiter is an en-dash, and ...
Pasang Lhamu Sherpa ( Sherpa: པ་སངས་ལྷ་མོ་ཤར་པ།, Nepali: पासाङ ल्हामु शेर्पा; 10 December 1961 – 22 April 1993) was the first Nepalese woman to climb the summit of Mount Everest. [2] [3] She was born in a mountaineering family and was involved in climbing from her teens. She ...