Apa Sherpa receives the Shinning World Leadership Award
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How time flies #18 enjoy!
New Article in The Salt Lake Tribune
Apa Sherpa returns Sunday June 1st to his home in Draper, UT after making it to the top of Mount Everest for a world record 18th time last week. He arrives at 1:35 p.m. on a Southwest flight at Salt Lake City International Airport.
Apa Sherpa warm with pride over record-breaking Everest summit on Eco Everest [...]
Backpacker
http://www.backpacker.com/blogs/202
http://www.backpacker.com/article/12367
Apa Sherpa summits Mount Everest #18
Draper resident breaks his own world record with 18th climb to top
By Brett Prettyman
The Salt Lake Tribune
Posted: 8:05 PM - Apa Sherpa has made it to the top of the planet once again.
The 48-year-old Nepali, who has lived in Utah since 2006, summited Mount Everest for the 18th time tonight (Thursday morning in Nepal).
His [...]
Apa on his way #18
In this day and age of super athletes whose bodies have become machines carefully calibrated to accomplish their respective feats, it’s difficult to imagine a record that can’t be broken. There was a time, fifty five years ago, when one record seemed truly out of reach . . . Summiting Mt. Everest. From that famous [...]
Thank you Ritz Camera
Special Thanks to: RITZ CAMERA,
Camera Equipment Provided by,
Chris Anderson (Manager Store #1771)
Rory Andus (D.M. District #56)
Gabe Garcia (R.M. Region #8)
Bob DeVita (Director of Marketing and Advertising)
David Ritz (Owner \ Visionary)
When Apa needed a new digital camera to take photos and an HD camera to film some of his special moments of his Mt. Everest 18th world [...]
The Circle
Just wanted to post this email I received from Steve Wagner. It’s pretty cool.
A few years ago, I spent an evening in Ketchum attending a showing of Win and Sarah Whittaker’s documentary about students at the Himalayan Mountain Institute (HMI) in Darjeeling, India. Young people at a 14,000 foot base camp were learning climbing techniques [...]
What Apa Has Been up to in Utah…
The Salt Lake Tribune has written an article about Apa and what he’s been up to. Check it out at http://www.sltrib.com/food/ci_9172536
Apa Sherpa Joining Eco Everest
Apa Sherpa, who last spring reached the summit of Mount Everest for an unprecedented 17th time, now hopes to make it 18.
Apa, who has been spending time in his home village of Thame before making his way to base camp, said he had not planned to make another attempt to summit the world’s tallest peak [...]
About SuperSherpas
Apa Sherpa is the only man in history to reach the top of the world 18 times. As the world record holder of the most summits of Everest, Apa is widely recognized to be one of the greatest living mountaineers...more
When Lhakpa Gelu Sherpa set out to set an Everest speed ascent record, little did anyone know he would not only break the late Babu Chirri Sherpa’s Everest speed ascent record of 16 hrs 56, but shatter it altogether with a time of 10 hrs 56 min and 46 sec – 6 hours faster than Babu’s seemingly unbeatable record...more
Jerry Mika is the Sherpa's connection to the U.S. He sponsored the Sherpas and their families to come live with him in Utah. Together, Jerry and the Sherpas own and run SuperSherpas.
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