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Apa Sherpa (front) and Lhakpa Sherpa make climbing an ice fall on Mount Everest look easy.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Apa Sherpa (front) and Lhakpa Sherpa make climbing an ice fall on Mount Everest look easy.
Apa Sherpa, Lhapka Sherpa, at Snowbird Ski Resort, Salt Lake City, March 2007.
Photo by Jeffrey D. Allred
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Apa Sherpa: Apa Sherpa's dream was never to climb Mount Everest. As a boy growing up in Nepal, he wanted to be a doctor. But he had to drop out of school at age 12, after his father died, and start working as a porter. Apa worked his way up to climbing because the pay was better. Today, he holds the world record for having reached the Everest summit 16 times. Apa, who moved his family to Utah so his three children can have a better education, sees a need for more education funding in Nepal. As a member of the school board in his hometown of Thame, he has helped build a middle school, so students no longer have to walk three hours each way to school. Lhapka Sherpa: No one in the world has climbed Mount Everest faster than Lhapka Sherpa. He's reached the summit in just under 11 hours. Like Apa, Lhapka had to drop out of school at an early age - he says he has just five years of education. His three children are attending a boarding school in Nepal. He and his wife, Fhuli, are working on bringing them to Utah. Lhapka sees education as "very, very important" and is hopeful that the Super Sherpa expedition will raise funds to improve education in Nepal.
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