Sentence examples for Sherpa from inspiring English sources
verb
To serve as a guide or porter for another.
Her unusual approach to mountaineering included having her personal satellite phone carried up as far as Camp Four at 26,000 feet, and making much of the final journey to the summit attached by a short length of rope to a sherpa.
As the president's "sherpa", or chief envoy, to meetings of the G20 and G8 countries, he built relationships with European and Asian leaders that could prove vital in guiding regional trade deals through treacherous ground.
This week, a team from Ncell demonstrated this by making a video call to a Sherpa stationed above Everest Base Camp at 5,300 metres.It's unclear whether the signal from the highest base station will reach Mount Everest's 8,848m summit.
In a nod to the rest of the world's impatience with the number of Europeans in the G20, the two presidents have agreed to share a sherpa, and to sit behind a single name-plate at the table.
One local sherpa has been to the summit ten times.
He carried water for the 2008 campaign like a sherpa, even defending Mr McCain's disastrous decision to "suspend his campaign" during the financial crisis: "If the race is between an energetic executive and an indecisive talker, the energetic executive should win".So Mr Kristol was the perfect press ally for Mr McCain.
This may explain why he has overloaded his chief European adviser, Jon Cunliffe, with two other jobs, as his head of international economic affairs and as the official sherpa who prepares G8 summits.A similar sound of misfiring can be heard from the British Rolls-Royce in Brussels.
Russia was represented in Riga not by the abrasive Vladimir Putin but by the man who was once his smooth summit sherpa, Igor Shuvalov (he is now the prime minister's senior deputy).
For their historic oxygen-free climb of Mount Everest in 1978, Messner and Habeler accompanied a large German-Austrian conventional (i.e., Sherpa-supported) expedition to the mountain.
Each year Dawa Steven Sherpa, an outfitter, digs into his profits and pays 100 rupees ($1) to Sherpas for every kilogram (2.2lb) of garbage that they bring down.
True Sherpa heritage is determined through patrilineage, and all Sherpas belong to 1 of 18 clans and bear a clan name.
