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Apa Sherpa held the world record for Everest summits for years before retiring in 2011 — today he funds Nepali children's schooling from a suburb of…
By Laxman Rawal · Jul 28, 2026
Apa Sherpa climbed to the summit of Everest 21 times between 1990 and 2011 — more than anyone else on Earth had ever done when he finally stopped. He did not retire to write a memoir about the mountain. He retired to a quiet suburb of Salt Lake City and…
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Apa moved his family to the United States in 2006, settling in Draper, a Salt Lake City suburb, years before he stopped climbing — meaning several of his later record-building seasons involved flying back to Nepal from Utah each spring. He retired from…
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Apa's story is a useful corrective to how outsiders often picture 'Sherpa' — not a fixed rank on the mountain, but a career with its own arc, risk and eventual exit, the same as any other. Every trekker who books an Everest Base Camp trek or a summit push on…
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