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Youngest to summit Mount Everest
Temba Tsheri
Sherpa
The youngest person recognized by the Government of Nepal and Guinness World Records to summit Mount Everest — at sixteen, on the North Ridge, two weeks after his birthday.
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Years old at the summit
Everest
North Ridge, from Tibet
23 May 2001
Date of the ascent
Mountains are not something to conquer. They are worshipped — and climbing them tests your limits while giving something back in return.
Temba Tsheri Sherpa, on his relationship with the Himalayas
Early life
A childhood spent between the fields and the high pastures
Temba was born on 9 May 1985 in Tashi Nam, in the Rolwaling Valley of Nepal's Dolakha district — a place so remote it takes a full day by bus and two more on foot to reach.
His father, Chhauwa Sherpa, worked as an expedition cook and porter; his mother, Lakpa Diki Sherpa, kept the house and fields. Mornings began with chores and an hour-long walk to school.
Read the full storyThe first attempt · 2000
At thirteen, Temba was already the youngest person certified in basic mountaineering by the Nepal Mountaineering Association. At fourteen, with a small, underfunded team, he set out for the summit from the South Col. He has never sensationalized what happened next — the facts speak plainly enough.
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Short of the summit when bad weather and oxygen loss forced the team to turn back at the Hillary Step.
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Nights spent at Camp 4, 7,925m, in the Death Zone, waiting out the weather on dwindling supplies.
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Fingers lost to frostbite — three on the right hand, two on the left — amputated after the descent.
From the journal
Notes from the mountains, and everywhere since
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Today
Still with the mountains
Temba is the founder and managing director of Sherpa Khangri Outdoor, a Kathmandu-based trekking and expedition agency organizing climbs above 8,000 metres at home and abroad. He is also working through the Seven Summits, having already reached the highest points of Africa, Europe and North America.
He remains based between Kathmandu and the Rolwaling Valley, close to the mountains that shaped him.
