Appa Sherpa
Appa Sherpa or Lhakpa Tenzing Sherpa is a Nepalese Sherpa and high altitude climber . He is known as the person who stood on the summit of Mount Everest for the first time for the 21st time (as of May 11, 2011) . He was born between 1960 and 1962 in the village of Thame. Appa himself is unsure of his date of birth as the Sherpa have no birth records.
background
Appa grew up at the foot of Mount Everest . He began at an early age, to carry equipment and climbers and trekkers to support.
At the age of 27, during the 1988 summer season, he married Yang Chi, also from the Thame Village area. He has four children with her.
Appa went to Mount Everest for the first time in 1989 with a New Zealand team, led by the experienced mountain guide Rob Hall . This started a career for Appa as sirdar or chief sherpa for many high mountain expeditions.
He received medals of honor from the King of Nepal and other honors. Several other Sherpas stood almost as often as Appa Sherpa on Everest. Among the mountaineers who do not belong to the Sherpa people, the American Dave Hahn comes closest to this achievement with fifteen ascents.
In December 2006, Appa and his family moved to Draper , Utah , USA to give their children a good education. Some of his American friends supported his move. Appa works in an outdoor equipment store and hosts readings.
successes
blue = upper normal route south from Nepal, from the
south saddle (lower south route in the Western Qwm in the shadow of Everest)
green = normal route north from the east Rongpu valley
On May 10, 1990 he reached the summit for the first time with Rob Hall , Gary Ball and Peter Hillary . In the spring of 1991 he joined the Sherpa expedition and reached the summit with Peter Athans (USA), Ang Temba and Sonam Dendu. Two years after their first mutual success, Rob Hall and Appa reached the summit again, again on May 10, this time during Rob Hall's first commercial expedition. They had become close friends. In the autumn of the same year he began his work as Sirdar (chief of the high mountain carriers) for an expedition to the USA and reached the summit again. When he was hired by Todd Burleson (USA) as a sirdar in the spring of 1992 , he and Burleson and Wally Berg reached the summit for the fifth time in three years. He didn't come back to the mountain until the fall of 1994 when he went to the summit with the Japanese Mihara. The following spring he was up again with Brad Bull (USA), Tommy Heinrich (Argentina) and his brother Ang Rita, the first pair of brothers to be on the summit at the same time. Rob Hall asked him to work with him on various occasions during the later disastrous 1996 season, but Appa was building his lodge and he was following his wife's requests to complete it. This season Rob Hall and eleven other mountaineers were killed in a snow storm in the summit region of Mount Everest, see the accident on Mount Everest (1996) .
Anatoly Bukrejew gave him work in 1997 on an Indonesian expedition with which he reached the summit for the eighth time in eight attempts. During the autumn of 1997, Appa went to the Tibetan north side for the first time with a Swiss expedition. Appa and another member of the expedition reached 8,700 meters in deep snow. Appa insisted that the Swiss go down on his snowboard and then climbed down to the valley alone until Stephane Schaffter came to his aid at 7000 meters on the North Col. This was the first time since 1989 that Appa failed to make the summit. He went back to the north side in the 1999 season and climbed the mountain. During the two spring years 1998 and 2000 he was on clean-up expeditions with Bob Hoffman (USA) on the mountain and was most recently on the summit for the tenth time.
In the spring of 2001 he was back on the southern route with Japanese. After he was back at base camp, he and Babu Chiri Sherpa were flown to Kathmandu to be honored by Nepal's then King Birendra , Babu Chiri for ten summit climbs and for his successful attempt to stay on the summit for 21 hours without additional oxygen, and Appa for eleven climbs. These two men, portrayed as rivals in the media, were close and loyal friends. When Babu Chiri was killed in an avalanche shortly afterwards, Appa continued his mountaineering career, now against the declared will of his family.
On May 22, 2010 he reached the summit of Mount Everest for the 20th time as part of an expedition of 13-year-old Jordan Romero . On May 11, 2011, he was on the summit for his 21st and last time.
In the 2017 season, his record was initially set by the Sherpa Kami Rita , who then stood on Everest for the 22nd time on May 16, 2018, surpassing the Appa Sherpa's record (as of May 2018).
Web links
- Sherpa breaks record on Mt Everest
- Everesthistory.com - Apa Sherpa
- Article of the Salt Lake Tribune in December 2006, engl.
- SPIEGEL online article on Kami Rita's record
- Walther Lücker : Everest record holder Apa Sherpa: The unknown summit hero. In: Spiegel Online from May 29, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ SPON article see left
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Appa Sherpa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lhakpa Tenzing Sherpa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Nepalese climber |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1960 |