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Babu
Chhiri Sherpa, is the name of the legendary climber
who summitted Mt. Everest 10 times at the mere
age of 35. He was the second fastest climber after
Kazi Sherpa who summited Everest from the base
camp with an amazing speed of 21hours. Babu Chhiri
was able to beat that record in just 16.56hrs.
He also spent an amazing 21 hours on the summit
of Everest without using bottled oxygen and wrote
his name in the Guinness Book of World Record.
But on the night of 21 April, 2005, while on his
eleventh time expedition to the summit, he lost
his life by falling into a 200m deep crevasse. |
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Babu
Chhiri Sherpa was born in 1965 in a remote village
of Taksindu in the Solukhumbu District of Nepal.
Khumbu area is well known today as the gateway
to Everest. |
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Babu Chhiri's parents, Taksindu, Solu Khumbu |
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As
a child he spent most of his time helping parents in
farm, taking animals for grazing and fetching water
from the nearby stream. He had no schooling because
there were no school in or in the surrounding areas
of his village. |
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Having
been born in a place so close to the mountains, and
meeting many tall and white people, he had wondered
thinking he would one day go with those tall white people
and reach the summit of those majestic mountains. |
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Soon
he left his house to find a job. He started working
as a mountain porter carrying heavy loads for expedition
groups and walking up to the base camp. He was fascinated
by the equipment, the energy of those people. After
working as mountain porter for many years, in 1998 he
climbed Mera Peak (6,654m) and thus started his mountaineering
career. |
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Today
he is no more with us, but his achievements in the field
of mountaineering will always be remembered by the whole
world. His awards are as follows: |
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1. National Talent Award
(including Rs. 15,000)
2. Youth Excellence Award (including
Rs. 20,000)
3. Consolation & cash prize of Rs.
1,21,121 from (NMA)
4. International Everest Award (Rs.
10,000) by TAAN
5. Pasang Lhamu Youth Award
6. Suprashidha Prabal Gorkha Dakshin
Bahu 1st
7. Tuborg Outstanding Award |
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He
spoke Nepali, Sherpa, English and Hindi. He had been
to Canada, China, Italy, Mexico, Pakistan & USA.
His favorite model was Tenzing Norgay Sherpa was the
1st successful person to summit the Everest in 1959
with Edmund Hillary. |
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Babu Chhiri Bal Kalyan Primary School when it was being
constructed |
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He
had a dream of establishing a primary school at his
village which was completed before his death. Now the
school is run by the government with partial support
from ESA. |
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| He died in 29 April 2001. |
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Babu Chhiri's wife Ang Phuti Sherpa and six daughters |
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