Panuru Sherpa
Panuru Sherpa
Climbing and High Mountain Expedition Guide | Co-founder and Expedition Leader, Director Xtreme Climbers Treks and Expedition Pvt. Ltd. | Former Chairman at Khumbu Climbing Center, KCC. | Lead Climbing instructor at Khumbu Climbing Center, KCC. | Phortse Guest House, Phortse (Proprietor)
Panuru Sherpa

Panuru Sherpa, Born in 1970. Married Pasang Diki Sherpa in 1992, Having Three Children: Daughter Fura Lhamu Sherpa and Pasang Yangiee Sherpa, and Son Lhakpa Gyalzen Sherpa. While still a young boy,  Panuru left School in order to help his parents care of Yaks and Naks. At the age of 15, he began his career in tourism by working as an assistant/Lead climbing sherpa guide. In addition to the accomplishments listed below.

Panuru Sherpa Has been climbing since 1988 and working as a Sirdar since 1998 till now. He was also on the 1999 Everest Expedition that recovered George Mallory’s body with Conrad Anker. Outside of Nepal, Panuru has climbed in Korea, participated in the KCC National Parks Exchange on Denali, the Grand Tetons, and Yosemite, returned to work on Denali in 2013 and 2014 as a volunteer climbing ranger on Mt. Denali, Alaska, summiting 3 times, and guided expeditions in Tibet (Everest, Cho Oyu, Shishapangma (China), Gurla Mandhata  (7,694m) became the 1st Nepalese to summit on 2007.(China). Panuru is one of the founders of KCC in Nepal and has been with the organization since its inception in 2004, serving as a lead instructor since 2008. He is also chairman of the KCC Committee in Nepal. Panuru participated in many rescues during his career, contributing to his commitment to safety training through KCC. Early in his career, Panuru climbed with Adventure Consultant leads, Rob Hall and Gary Ball. In 1992 he fell into a crevasse and needed to be rescued back to Kathmandu. In 1994 he returned to summit Cho Oyu with the Hall and Ball team, but with a new commitment to learning safety and rescue in the mountains.

In 2003 Panuru used a sked and lowering system to rescue a client from the South Col of Everest to Camp 2. 

  • 1988 As Porter for the Korean Everest Expedition Group, Panuru Sherpa made Five climbs to 8,100m carrying Expedition loads. The expedition was under the leadership of Mr. Choi Chang-Min and the Sardar was Pemba Dorji Sherpa.
  • 1992 Endured a climbing accident on Everest which required Helicopter rescue and transport to Kathmandu for medical treatment.
  • 1993 Working with Korean Wind House Company, Summited Everest from Tibet side.
  • 1994 American Tibet Everest Summit.[Summit Everest from Tibet side].
  • 1995 Korean Tibet Everest Summit (Summit Everest from Tibet side].
  • 1996 Korean Everest Expedition (Shason University) Summited which was led by Mr. Hyuing Chil Lim
  • 1997 Korean Tibet Everest Summit  [Summit Everest from Tibet side ] 
  • 1998 Summited Everest Expedition from the north side. The team was Mr. Dave Hahn and the Sirdar was Mr. Panuru Sherpa.
  • 1999 Everest expedition recovered George Mallory’s body with Conrad Anker.
  • 2000 Korean Everest Expedition (South) Summit led by Panuru Sherpa
  • 2001 Summited Everest Expedition from the north side with an American expedition group Led by Panuru Sherpa.
  • 2002 Summited Everest with Phurba Sherpa and the late Mr. Marco Siffredi.
  • 2002 French Snowboard expedition (Sep 8 )  [we climb from the north side and summit Everest on sep 8 . Me and my Sherpa team went down from the same route but  Marco Siffredi went from Hornbein couloir with his snowboard and was never found.
  • 2003 UAS Tibet Everest Summit (May.24)  [summit Everest from Tibet side] 
  • 2006 Summited Everest from South under the leadership of Mr. Mark Tucker, the coach was Mr. Justin Merle, and Panuru Sherpa was the personal Climbing Sherpa Guide for Ms. Sophia Denenberg of USA. After the successful summit with Panuru Sherpa Sophia became the First African American and the First black woman to climb to the summit of the world's tallest mountain. She is biracial, with her father black and her mother Japanese.
  • 2007 Worked as Personal Sherpa Guide on Everest Expedition led by Mr. Cassey Aaron Grom of USA.
  • 2007 Became the 1st Nepalese Sherpa Guide to summit Gurla Mandhata (7,694 m. China).
  • 2009  Worked as personal Climbing Sherpa organized by IMG Nepal and Summited Everest [May 5 and May 20] 2 times within fifteen days from the South side. 
  • 2010 Worked as personal climbing sherpa of Ms. Lee Li Hui of Singapore. Led by Mr. Justin Merle.
  • 2011  Worked as a personal Climbing Sherpa Summit Everest. Lead by Mr. GregoryVernovage of USA.
  • 2012  Worked as Climbing Sherpa with a team of The National Geographic Society under the leadership of  Mr. Conrad Anker, Summit.
  • 2016 Alpenglow Tibet Everest Expedition Summit 
  • 2018 Everest Expedition (North) As Lead Sardar of Alpenglow Expedition USA. Due to a problem with the Oxygen Mask Regulator, the entire team has to return from 8700m.
  • 2019 The National Geographic Research Everest Expedition and The World's Highest Weather Station Installation on Everest under the leadership of Panuru Sherpa has successfully installed the World’s Highest Weather Stations on Earth and successfully collected the ICE Core from the North Pole.
  • 2021 USA Nepal Everest Expedition led by Panuru Sherpa Summit 12.May.2021
  • 2022 Sardar / lead climbing Sherpa of The very First all BLACK Full Circle Everest “FCEE” Expedition (South)

 

Panuru Sherpa received the Star Award from the Denali National Park Service in Alaska, USA, after Twice Summiting Mt. Denali / Mt. McKinley (6,168m. / 20,237ft.) At age 47, Panuru has 30 years of experience resulting in 16 Everest summits (world's highest mountain 8,848.86m), 16 on Cho Oyu (8,188m), 4 on Shishapangma (8,027m), 1 on Manaslu (8,163m), 1 on Makalu (8,200m), 7 on Ama Dablam (6,812m),  Mt. Denali, Alaska, 3 times, and many more mountains and Trekking peaks of the Himalayas which are over 6000 to 7000m. During the season Panuru runs and organizes high expeditions and Trekking from his company Xtreme Climbers Treks and Expedition along with his partner Pemba Sherpa. The First Successful Ski Lhotse 8,516m Expedition was a recently recorded success from his company Xtreme Climbers which was done in the 2018 Autumn. Hilaree Nailson and Jim Morission became the first duo to Summit and Ski down from the top of Mt. Lhotse 8,516m. Where Nick Kalisz and Dutch Simpson have made their first 8000m. Successfully with Xtreme Climbers Team of professionals. Xtreme Climbers also hold the records  successfully organizing,

The First Successful Ski Lhotse Decent 8,516m Expedition in 2018.

The Youngest Female American Everest Summiters (Lucy Westlake) in 2022.

The world's first highest yoga adventure on the summit of Mt. Cholatse 6440m in 2022. And the full sponsorship and the entire necessary legal support for the First Successful Mt. LUZA 5726m Ascent team which was also in 2022.  In the year 2019 / 2021 Panuru Sherpa led the National Geographic Scientific Research Expedition Team with Two climate scientists, Tom Matthews and Baker Perry to Build an automatic weather station at Balcony on Mt. Everest along with the team of Climbing Sherpa. The weather station, sitting at 27,600 feet above sea level. The highest weather station in the world, which is ever installed-reaching the subtropical jet stream, a band of powerful winds that circle the globe at a high altitude and are notoriously difficult to track. When he is not in the mountains, he runs his own guest house, Phortse Guest House, Phortse with wife, Pasang Dikki Sherpa. 

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