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  Sherpa people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sherpas were of immeasurable value to early explorers of the Himalayan region, serving as guides and porters at the extreme altitudes of the peaks and passes in the region.
Sherpas are renowned in the global climbing and mountaineering community for their hardiness, expertise, and experience at high altitudes.
Sherpas have earned this reputation mostly because despite the value of their services, the pay is insubstantial to the point where many cannot afford the modern climbing gear that Western climbers use.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sherpa_(Ethnic_group)   (570 words)

  
 Electric Vehicles: Electric Vehicles International LLC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sherpa is equipped standard with 3 passenger seating which makes its ideal for airport use, refuse hauling and inner city goods transportation.
Sherpa chassis design allows it to be configured with various deck sizes thereby allowing our clients to tailor the vehicle to their specific needs.
Sherpa is one of the first electric vehicle that competes, outperforms its gasoline competitors in price, performance, aesthetics and operator comfort.
www.evi-usa.com /trucks.htm   (155 words)

  
 Sherpa People of Nepal
Prior to British expeditions, Sherpas revered the great mountains of the region as dwelling places of gods and goddesses, to which the thought of climbing was considered blasphemous.
Sherpa" refers both to a tribal group and a job capacity as porter, climber or trek leader.
Today the Sherpa population in the Khumbu is about 5,000 with a total of roughly 35,000 living in Nepal.
www.alpineascents.com /sherpa.asp   (421 words)

  
 Sherpa
Sherpa allows you to scan the entire market or just your own carefully selected watch lists for those companies or markets that are both fundamentally desirable and technically attractive.
Sherpa however does not carry tools or equipment that sound important but that, in the investment game, are of little practical use.
Sherpa allows you to track an individual company’s latest data releases through the daily downloads, but perhaps even more powerful is its ability to apply ratio analysis to entire sectors or the whole market to identify those companies that best meet your criteria.
www.hubb.com.au /sherpa/pgtemplate.asp?page=support&lft=support&support=faq   (3312 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Founded by Pemba in 1994, Sherpa Ascent International has led numerous annual trips ranging from major expeditions climbs, treks and mountain biking adventures in the Himalayas to excursions and instructive classes in the mountains of the US.
Sherpa Ascent aims to introduce not only the obvious physical beauty of Nepal, but its spiritual and cultural treasurers as well.
Sherpa's is the place to re-live the glories of past adventures and plan new ones.
www.sherpaascent.com /restaurant.htm   (895 words)

  
 Sherpa - Soft as a Cloud - Cut of Cloth
Sherpa Terry, also known as Sherpa Fleece, or simply Sherpa, is one of the most popular choices in diaper fabrics today.
Sherpa Terry is knit terry fabric, just like a baby towel, that has been brushed and washed to raise the fibers and give a fluffy super soft feel.
Sherpa terry that is 75% cotton and 25% polyester, to 80% cotton and 20% polyester is most commonly used in diapers.
www.cutofcloth.com /article_sherpa.asp   (543 words)

  
 Sherpa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sherpas speak a Tibetan dialect and traditionally are traders and farmers, cultivating their high altitude fields of potatoes, barley, wheat and buckwheat.
Historically, the most famous Sherpa is Tenzing Norgay, who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary on the first successful ascent of Mount Everest.
By extension, sherpa is the name given to the personal representatives of heads of state and government within the G8 process: the metaphor is that the "sherpa" prepares the way toward the "summit".
www.wikiverse.org /sherpa   (629 words)

  
 Sherpa: Regression Test Procedures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sherpa is an interactive application; users type in commands at the command line, and Sherpa functions are executed in response.
Sherpa commands can also be stored in a text file or "script", and the script can be run as a batch job.
Sherpa normally sends much of its output to stdout (e.g., the "fit" command by default displays the fit statistic at the end of each iteration, and the best-fit values of the thawed parameters upon completion; and, the options to the "show" command print out much information, and so on).
hea-www.harvard.edu /uinfra/sherpa/Regression.html   (1584 words)

  
 Sherpa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Most Sherpas live in the eastern regions of the country known as Solu, Khumbu and Pharak.
The Jirels are ethnically related to the Sherpas.
A further extension is that, in UK caving, a Sherpa is one of the team who assists a cave diver to move his equipment to the start of the dive.
www.medicaliterature.com /Sherpa.wik   (545 words)

  
 Main Articles: 'Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain with SHERPA', Ariadne Issue 33   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
One thing that SHERPA will aim to do will be to examine the copyright agreements of different publishers and publicise what their agreements will and will not allow.
In other cases, SHERPA hopes to negotiate directly with publishers to persuade them to grant the project a blanket waiver which allows articles to be posted on SHERPA archives at least for the duration of the project.
We expect that SHERPA will also be engaged in digital preservation activity for the contents of its archives later in the project, and are talking to funding agencies and various partners about the prospects for this.
www.ariadne.ac.uk /issue33/sherpa   (3618 words)

  
 The Changing Role of Sherpa Climbers - GreatOutdoors.com
Lakpa Rita Sherpa on the summit of Denali, with the flag of Nepal.
Some would argue that Sherpa are losing the simplicity of their enviable lifestyle, but few would contest their right to a more comfortable existence.
"Sherpas have redefined their role on paper with people like Lakpa and Apa," said Norbu Tenzing, who's father and Hillary made the first ascent of Everest in 1953.
www.greatoutdoors.com /published/general/news/thechangingroleofsherpaclimbers   (1033 words)

  
 C-23 Sherpa - Military Aircraft
The Sherpa is an all-freight version of the Shorts 330 regional airliner with a 5 ft-6 inch square cabin section over an unimpeded hold length of 29 ft. Through-loading is provided via a large forward freight door, and via a full width, hydraullically operated rear ramp door with removable roller conveyors.
The C-23 Sherpa is the Army National Guard’s answer to missions requiring an aircraft that is capable of faster, higher-altitude and longer-distance coverage than helicopters.
The C-23B Sherpa aircraft is a light military transport aircraft, designed to operate efficiently, even under the most arduous conditions, in a wide range of mission configurations.
www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ac/c-23.htm   (762 words)

  
 NOVA Online | Everest | Sherpas on Everest
Sherpas have an unmatched spirit and positive outlook that has been written about the world over.
Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, hearing of the continuing British climbing expeditions to Mount Everest, came to India in 1933, hoping to be taken on for that year's expedition.
He was not among those selected, but in 1935, at the age of 19, he was picked by Eric Shipton to take part in the exciting reconnaissance he was leading to the Everest area.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/everest/history/sherpason.html   (460 words)

  
 Sherpa: CIAO's Modeling & Fitting Application - CIAO 3.2
Sherpa, CIAO's generalized modeling and fitting engine, allows users to construct complex models and to fit models to data in N dimensions.
Sherpa supports S-Lang, an interpreted programming language that can be used for scripting and data manipulation.
The GUIDE package within Sherpa links Sherpa results (stored in a MDL file) to the ATOMDB, enabling the identification of spectral lines and the use of their properties in further fitting.
cxc.harvard.edu /sherpa   (339 words)

  
 sherpa - a host security tool   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Also, sherpa is written in Perl because of ease of use when it comes to report generation and system administration needs.
If you need assistance with using sherpa, notice any bugs or have suggestions for modifications to sherpa then contact me directly at rcrelia -AT- gmail.com I'm always looking for help, especially in coming up with other OS sample perms.lst files.
The Sherpa spirit is one of comraderie and interpersonal strength.
sherpa.lavamonkeys.com   (761 words)

  
 Sherpa RPG - Intro
Another RPGnet review of the RPG Sherpa by Michael Richter.
Sherpa was not specifically designed as a live action RPG (LARP) - but I suppose you could use the rules for a LARP if you wanted to.
Sherpa is 30 pages in an 8.5" by 5.5" format (roughly A5 size for you non-Yanks).
www.panix.com /~sos/rpg/sherpa.html   (675 words)

  
 1997 Sherpa Culture in the Everest Expedition Cybercast Live with Todd Burleson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
As Sherpas were praised and rewarded for their climbing achievements, they accepted the mantle of the sport's glories--and its tragedies.
While these ancestral roles remain a staple of Sherpa life, the leading of climbs and treks has become a mainstay of their economy.
The Sherpa population in the Khumbu is about 5,000; a total of about 35,000 Sherpas currently live in Nepal.
classic.mountainzone.com /everest/sherpas.stm   (1147 words)

  
 Sierra Sherpa Adventures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The threat of an avalanche in the winter backcountry is very real, and if you plan to spend any amount of time exploring and adventuring in the winter wilderness you must be able to recognize any hazards that may exist.
Sierra Sherpa's Avalanche Awareness Tour is an introduction to avalanche safety with an emphasis on terrain evaluation, route finding, weather, search and rescue techniques, snow stability, and winter survival.
Sierra Sherpa has a four person minimum on all tours, and is open to any ideas you may have.
home.inreach.com /telemyer/choices.htm   (410 words)

  
 Sherpa dog beds.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sherpa fabrics resemble lambs wool and are made of polyester/cotton.
Soft to the touch, sherpa is preferred for older mature dogs.
*Sherpa will not however hold up to nails, chronic chewing and may be irritating to some dogs.
www.mammothoutlet.com /fq15.htm   (75 words)

  
 ADASS 2003 Conference Proceedings
Sherpa has a number of S-Lang scripts that create certain types of plots (e.g., plots of data with error bars, plots with data and model values overplotted, plots of residuals, and so on).
Sherpa provides a number of mathematical and physical models to which data can be fit.
Such extensions could be functions to prepare Sherpa data sets for analysis, to modify plots produced by Sherpa plotting scripts, or to analyze data and fit results in ways that cannot be done with native Sherpa functions.
adass.org /adass/proceedings/adass03/P4-10   (1419 words)

  
 United Sherpa Association - In Memory of late Ang. Dorjee Lama
Ang Dorjee Lama was born in ward-number five, Shyama VDC of Dolakha district in Nepal.
It was due to his vision and tireless effort that the Sherpa Sewa Kendra in Bhaudhanath, Kathamndu was established with the help of many other Sherpas.
Tenjing Norgay Sherpa exemplified bravery of the Sherpas and Mr.
www.sherpakyidug.org /E-talk/etalk8.asp   (1247 words)

  
 Coast to Coast baggage and accommodation services with Sherpa Van   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In November 2004, Sherpa Van merged with our existing partners www.coast2coast.co.uk, to become a one-stop shop for Accommodation and Baggage booking and help you get the most from Britain's national trails...
Your feedback on trail accommodation is invaluable in helping other walkers to find the best value, best quality places to rest their heads after a long day.
Sherpa trek leader Jon Millen answers your questions on the Coast to Coast path.
www.sherpavan.com   (390 words)

  
 CNN.com - Sherpa breaks Everest record - May 21, 2004
Pemba Dorji Sherpa, 26, surpassed the previous record by more than two hours, reaching the summit at 2:10 a.m.
Sherpas are native to the high altitude Himalayan mountains in Nepal and renowned for their mountaineering prowess.
Pemba's record is a far cry from the more than seven weeks it took Sir Edmund Hilary and his climbing partner, the late Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, to reach the summit from their base camp on May 29, 1953.
www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/asiapcf/05/21/everest.record/index.html   (307 words)

  
 Apa Sherpa
A.) [Apa Sherpa] NO. If I don't fix the ropes they all turn around like the around 60 climbers before that attempted that year....had to turn around.
A.) [Apa Sherpa] I am concerned about what the Sherpa guides are paid compared to the western guides.
Sherpa guides should be paid like western guides.
www.k2news.com /appa.htm   (433 words)

  
 Sherpa and International TechneGroup Unveil Powerful New Integration Software That Extends Data Access To The Enterprise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sherpa Corporation is the market leader in providing scaleable, easy-to-use and cost effective PDM II solutions for manufacturers to manage all types of product information throughout the product lifecycle and across the extended enterprise.
With the largest customer base in the industry, and an unchallenged track record of successful system implementations, Sherpa is a major supplier to small and large companies alike in the aerospace and defense, automotive, consumer electronics, medical equipment and telecommunications markets.
Sherpa can be reached on the World Wide Web at http://www.sherpa.com.
www.pdmic.com /sherpa/sherpdat.html   (721 words)

  
 Sherpa Performance Guides: Get more done with less stress and more satisfaction.
I particularly appreciate how the Sherpa team collaborated with our group giving us the benefit of their insight to ease the transition, especially keeping our staff informed about what was going to happen and when.
Sherpa Microsoft Outlook Basics is a short hands-on training program to introduce you to the basics of Microsoft Outlook before participating in the Sherpa Workflow Program.
The Sherpa Trees and Trails Program is a practical and proven process to develop an organization structure (Trees) and a file-naming protocol (Trails) to bring order and efficiency to your organization’s management of electronic files.
www.sherpapg.com /web/swp/other.htm   (978 words)

  
 Tenzing Norgay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Unlike most of his fellow Sherpas of the time for whom, by and large, climbing was just a challenging way of making a living, Tenzing desperately wanted to get to the summit of Mt. Everest and devoted most of his life to this goal.
When World War II put an end to large, official Everest expeditions, he allowed himself to be persuaded to join Earl Denman in sneaking secretly through Tibet to make what he knew was a wild and unlikely effort to reach the summit.
The British no longer had a monopoly on Everest attempts, and in 1952 Tenzing was invited to join the Swiss, not just as a Sherpa crew member but as a fellow climber, on their two attempts to be first on the summit.
www.tenzing-norgay.com /about/tenzing1.html   (1355 words)

  
 EverestHistory.com: The Sherpas of Everest Series: Apa Sherpa
His given name is Lhakpa Tenzing Sherpa, from the village of Thame, off the beaten path in the higher Everest region.
Probably born in 1960 or 1962, he is not quite sure since as most Sherpa, their birth date is not accounted for.
In the spring of 1991, he joined the Sherpa Expedition, where he reached the summit for the second time with Pete Athans from the USA, Ang Temba and Sonam Dendu from the village of Kumjung.
www.everesthistory.com /sherpas/apa.htm   (1771 words)

  
 United Sherpa Association - Interview With Mr. Apa Sherpa
Apa Sherpa is married to Yang Chi Sherpa and together they have four children: Tenzing Zangbu, Pemba Nurbu, Ang Nimi and Dawa Yang Chi Sherpa.
Apa Sherpa: I want to advise the younger generation that education is the most important thing to change you and your community.
I feel thatthe young Sherpas should not take breaks from schools, colleges or universities to work as guides, climbers etc. I would say, fly your kite as high as possible, but do not break the string yourself.
www.sherpakyidug.org /E-talk/etalk5.asp   (955 words)

  
 Sherpa Performance Guides: Get more done with less stress and more satisfaction.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sherpa Performance Guides: Get more done with less stress and more satisfaction.
A heightened state of effectiveness and relaxed control where you and your team are on top of it all.
Only one company offers executives and their teams a real solution to the avalanche of email and the constant competition for your attention that affect how you feel, how you focus, and the decisions you make.
www.sherpatechnology.com   (252 words)

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