Apa Sherpa
Appa Sherpa Lhakpa Tenzing Sherpa or is a Nepalese Sherpa, a high-altitude mountaineer and known among climbers as the one person who most frequently ( 21 times, as of 11 May 2011) stood on the summit of Mount Everest. He was born 1960-1962 in the village of Thame. Appa himself is his birth date is not safe because the Sherpa have no birth records.
Background
Appa grew up at the foot of Mount Everest. He began in his early youth, to carry equipment and to assist climbers and trekkers.
At the age of 27, during the summer season 1988, he married Yang Chi, as well as from the area of the village of Thame. With her he has four children.
Appa in 1989 there was the first time a New Zealand team to Mount Everest, led by an experienced mountain guide Rob Hall. This began a career as Appa Sherpa Sirdar, or chief for many high mountain expeditions.
He received medals of honor of the King of Nepal and other honors. Several other Sherpas were nearly as often as Appa Sherpa on Everest. Among the climbers, not belonging to the Sherpa people, the Americans Dave Hahn comes with fourteen ascents this performance the next.
In December 2006, Appa moved with his family to Draper, Utah, in the United States to allow his children a good education. Some of his American friends supported his move. Appa works in an outdoor equipment shop and organizes readings.
Achievements
On 10 May 1990 he reached with Rob Hall, Gary Ball and Peter Hillary for the first time the summit. In the spring of 1991, he joined the Sherpa expedition and reached with Peter Athans (USA), Ang Temba and Sonam Dendu the summit. Two years after their first joint success achieved Rob Hall and Appa again the summit, again on May 10, this time while Rob Hall's first commercial expedition. They had become close friends. In the autumn of the same year he started his activity as a Sirdar ( head of the high mountain carrier ) for an expedition of the United States, reaching back to the top. When he was hired in the spring of 1992 by Todd Burleson (USA) as Sirdar, he reached with Burleson and Wally mountain to the summit for the fifth time in three years. By the fall of 1994 he did not return to the mountain, when he went to the summit with the Japanese Mihara. The following spring he was with Brad Bull (USA), Tommy Heinrich ( Argentina) and with his brother Ang Rita again above, the first pair of brothers who were on the summit at the same time. Rob Hall had on several occasions asked him to work with him in the later so disastrous verlaufenen 1996 season, but Appa was building his lodge and followed the request of his wife to complete the construction: in this season were Rob Hall and eleven other climbers in a snow storm in the summit region of Mount Everest died, see disaster on Mount Everest (1996).
Anatoli Bukrejew gave him in 1997 working in an Indonesian expedition, with whom he reached the summit, the eighth time in eight attempts. During the autumn of 1997 Appa went with a Swiss expedition for the first time at the Tibetan north side. Appa and another member of the expedition reached 8,700 meters in deep snow. Appa insisted that the Swiss with his snowboard abfahre, and then went alone into the valley until Stephane Schaffter seemed to 7,000 meters at the North Col to help. This was the first time since 1989 that Appa did not come to the summit. He went into the 1999 season to the North side and climbed the mountain. During the two years 1998 and early 2000, he was with each clean-up expeditions with Bob Hoffman (USA) on the mountain, and was most recently the tenth time at the summit.
In the spring of 2001 he was back on the southern route to the Japanese way. After he was back in the base camp, were Babu Chiri Sherpa and he flew to Kathmandu to be honored by Nepal damaligem King Birendra, Babu Chiri to stay for ten summit climbs and for his successful attempt 21 hours without oxygen at the summit, and apparatus for eleven climbs. These two men, who were portrayed in the media as rivals, were close and loyal friends. Shortly afterwards, Babu Chiri was killed in an avalanche, put Appa his mountaineering career continues, now against the declared will of his family.
On 22 May 2010, he reached, as a member of an expedition of 13 -year-old Jordan Romero, the 20th time the summit of Mount Everest. To his 21st ascent he broke in early April 2011 with several dozen climbers. The purpose of the expedition is to be, for the umpteenth time, the removal of large amounts of trash on Everest to the summit region.