Apa Sherpa Summits Everest for the 21st time!

Our friend Apa Sherpa Summits Everest for the 21st time today breaking the world record held by him last year.

Congratulations Apa. We'll buy you a beer when you get back.

Bohemian was with Sherpa on his monumental 20th summit in 2010.

New World Record, Apa Sherpa, Climbing Leader of Eco Everest Expedition 2011 reached the summit of Mt. Everest for the 21st time – a new world record.

At 09:15am this morning, Eco Everest Expedition Climbing Leader Apa Sherpa and members Chris Shumate(49 yrs) of USA , Bruno Gremior(39yrs) of Switzerland together with three Altitude Slimbing Sherpas, Ang Dawa Sherpa, Phurba Sherpa, and Arita Sherpa, stood on the top of Mt. Everest (8848m). They had left Camp 4 (7950m) last night, 10 May at 10:30 pm.

.Apa Sherpa’s Ascents of Mount Everest

#	Date	Expedition
1	May 10, 1990	International
2	May 8, 1991	Sherpa Support/American Lhotse
3	May 12, 1992	New Zealand
4	October 7, 1992	Everest International
5	May 10, 1993	American
6	October 10, 1994	Everest International
7	May 15, 1995	American On Sagarmatha
8	April 26, 1997	Indonesian
9	May 20, 1998	EEE
10	May 26, 1999	Asian-Trekking
11	May 24, 2000	Everest Environmental Expedition
12	May 16, 2002	Swiss Everest 50th Anniversary Expedition 1952-2002
13	May 26, 2003	American Commemorative Expedition
14	May 17, 2004	Dream Everest Expedition 2004
15	May 31, 2005	Climbing for a cure
16	May 19, 2006	Team No Limit
17	May 16, 2007	SuperSherpas™
18	May 22, 2008	The Eco Everest Expediton
19	May 21, 2009	The Eco Everest Expedition
20	May 21, 2010	The Eco Everest Expedition

Appa to summit Everest for the 21st time!

Utah’s Apa Sherpa to attempt 21st ascent of Mount Everest

February 10, 2011

By Jared Hargrave

Apa Sherpa, the world record holder for most ascents of the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest, will seek to break his own record by summiting the mountain (and making his wife worried) for the 21st time.

Apa Sherpa on his last record breaking ascent, where he brought canned beer from Utah's Bohemian Brewery to the summit.

Apa Sherpa is 51-years-old, lives in Draper, Utah, and is known the world over as the “Super Sherpa for his super human ability to climb mountains. In 2010 be previously broke his own world record by climbing Everest for the 20th time as part of the Eco Everest Expedition. Their mission has been to clean the garbage and human waste off the face of Everest so it can be properly disposed of. In the last four years, the team has brought down 12,000kg of garbage.

As a Utah related side note, in true mountaineer fashion, Apa brought beer to the summit in 2010. Utah’s Bohemian Brewery had the honor of being the fist microbrew on Everest when Apa carried their Pilsner and Amber Lager to the top of the world.

This year, Apa Sherpa will again take part in the Eco Everest Expedition 2011. According to the Asian-Trekking Agency, the team will once again climb the 29,028-foot peak to climb in ”an eco-sensitive manner, bringing old garbage, in addition to our own, and all human waste produced on the mountain down to base camp for proper disposal. We will once again be using our highly successful alternative energy solutions like the parabolic solar cookers and the SteriPENs for water purification.”

“Last year, Apa carried the banner of the Nepal Tourism Board to the summit of Mt Everest to announce to the world that Nepal was gearing up to celebrate 2011 as its tourism year,” said Ang Tshering Sherpa, chief of Asian Trekking. “This year, he felt he had to return to the peak to complete the work.”

Apa has sought to raise awareness of issues facing the people of Nepal ever since he first climbed Everest in 1990 as a porter. Last year, he established the Apa Sherpa Foundation to raise funds for a Sherpa school in Thame, a remote village in northern Nepal where he was born.

Apa and his wife, Yangjin, have two sons and a daughter. The family moved to Draper, Utah with the help of his friend Jerry Mika so his own children could receive a better education.

According to The Times of India, after the expedition that kicks off in April, Apa will be returning in autumn to further support Nepal’s Tourism Year 2011 campaign that seeks to draw 1 million tourists. With Dawa Steven, Apa will lead “the Great Himalaya Trail” – a five-month trekking odyssey from east Nepal to the west to promote tourism in rural Nepal.

Source: Asian-Trekking, The Times of India

Bohemian Brewery first craft beer to summit Mt. Everest

New World Record: Apa Sherpa Summits Mount Everest for the 20th Time

MOUNT EVEREST BASE CAMP ― Apa Sherpa just broke his own world’s record by summiting Mount Everest for the 20th time at 8:34 a.m. Saturday.

Apa’s goal in climbing this year was to help efforts to increase educational opportunities in the Khumbu Region, which includes the areas around Mount Everest.

In a statement he prepared in anticipation of reaching the summit, he said, “I am thankful to have been able to climb Mount Everest for the 20th time. I climbed this year to raise awareness about the Apa Sherpa foundation, which is dedicated to increasing educational opportunities for people in the Himalayan Region. I also climbed to bring attention to the damage done to the Himalayas because of global climate change.”

The Apa Sherpa Foundation was recently organized as a nonprofit organization to help Apa extend the educational opportunities that his children have to his fellow Sherpa in the Khumbu. For more information, go to http://www.apasherpafoundation.org/.

Apa was just named the SAARC Goodwill Ambassador for Climate Change. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, includes Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan.

Apa would also like to thank his sponsors that made this new world record possible:

SD7 Technology Group – IT Business Services
First Ascent / Eddie Bauer – Official Outfitter
Suunto - Superior High Altitude Watches
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Bohemian Brewery - Voted Number 1 Best Brew & Grill in Utah
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