Sherpa of Nepal

PRONUNCIATION: SHER-puhs

LOCATION: Nepal

POPULATION: 45,000

LANGUAGE: Sherpa (or Sherpali); Nepali

RELIGION: Nyingmapa sect of Buddhism

Sherpa is one of the most indigenous people of Nepal. Sherpa has been and still famous in the world for the trekking and mountaineering in Nepal . According to linguists,it is said that the word Sherpa means easterner, and this word comes from the Tibetan language.

The ancestral place of these famous mountaineers is the northern side of the Solukhumbu district. The Sherpa people living mainly in hilly and Himalayan region are found in Northern area of Nepal with various professional.
According to Sherpa tradition, the tribe migrated to Nepal from the Kham region of eastern Tibet over a thousand years ago. Historians, however, suggest that the Sherpas were nomadic herders who were driven out of their original homeland in eastern Tibet by warlike peoples sometime between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries AD . They migrated to the area around Tingri, but conflict with the local inhabitants caused them to move on in search of new pastures. They crossed the Himalayas and settled peacefully in their present homeland in northeastern Nepal.

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