Apa Sherpa
Apa (born
Lhakpa Tenzing Sherpa; 20 January 1960),
[1] nicknamed "Super Sherpa",
[2] is a
Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer who, jointly with
Phurba Tashi and
Shishir Bhattarai, holds the
record for reaching the summit of
Mount Everest more times than any other person. As part of The
Eco Everest Expedition 2011, Apa made his 21st
Mount Everest summit in May 2011 then retired after a promise to his wife to stop climbing after 21 ascents.
[3] [4] He first summited Everest in 1990 and his last time to the summit was in 2011.
[5]
Apa met Edmund Hillary many times, and was on the Expedition with his
son Peter Hillary in 1990, which was the first summit for both of them.
[6] Apa estimates he has been through the Khumbu Icefall about 1000 times and almost went with
Rob Hall's ill-fated 1996 expedition.
[7]
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