Posts Tagged ‘Dawa Sherpa’

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has honored the nineteen times Everest summitter Apa Sherpa along with Dawa Steven Sherpa with the WWF´s most esteemed "Leaders for a Living Planet" award amidst a function held at Gland, the WWF Secretariat in Switzerland on December 1st. International Director General of WWF, Jim Leape felicitated the “Climate-for-Life Ambassadors” with the highest honor given to an individual by WWF. "Apa and ... Full story

An expert Slovenian mountaineer who had been stranded in the Himalayas during his solo climb is found dead. Bad weather was hampering rescue efforts and unfortunately he lost his life, his expedition organizer, Asian Trekking said on Saturday. "The mountain that Humar was climbing, Langtang Lirung, is technically tough and not ... Full story