Lhakpa (right) welcoming Ngima at the Sherpa House Restaurant and Cultural Center in Golden, Colorado. — The Denver Post/TNS
NGIMA Nuru Sherpa is small in stature, but he stands tall in the annals of Mount Everest. The 170cm, 68kg native of Nepal’s Khumbu region has reached the summit of the world’s tallest mountain two dozen times, third-most on the all-time list.
Two other Sherpas have recorded more summits, but he was the youngest to notch 24. And, at age 43, he’s going back to the 8,849m mountain that Sherpas call Sagarmartha this spring for No. 25.
