Nonagenarian Kanchha Sherpa is the last surviving member of the 1953 expedition that saw Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa become the first humans to summit the world's highest mountain.
But his journey to prominence began in the opposite direction: at 19, he ran away from his home in Namche Bazaar – now the biggest tourist hub on the route to the Everest base camp – to Darjeeling in India, looking for Tenzing in hopes of finding work.
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