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Meanings of sherpa people in English

Russian
шерпы
Portuguese
sherpa
Spanish
sherpa
Catalan
xerpes

Ethnic group from the most mountainous region of Nepal.

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Examples for "sherpa"
Examples for "sherpa"
1
Struggling, he woke his sherpa who came to his rescue once more.
News.com.au
2
Those teams who don't have the sherpa power contributed ropes and oxygen bottles.
Climbing Magazine
3
A sherpa leads us through a series of ferret holes to our dressing room.
The Irish Times
4
An avalanche killed 18 climbers and sherpa mountain guides at the Everest base camp.
Reuters
5
Couple sherpas from Chilean team started to fix above camp 3 today.
Climbing Magazine
Usage of sherpa people in English
1
The Sherpa people want to be more involved in the activities on the mountain, he said.
Radio NZ
2
Sherpa people will carry your stuff for you.
The Guardian
3
I have no birth certificate, and when I was a child, Sherpa people did not celebrate birthdays.
Rock and Ice Magazine
4
Tibetans inherited their form of EPAS1 from the ancestors of the Nepalese Sherpa people about 30,000 years ago.
BBC
5
The achievement changed not only Hillary's life but the lives of the Sherpa people of Nepal, whose cause he has championed ever since.
The Irish Times
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