Sherpa

The Sherpa people are an ethnic group in eastern Nepal.

Sherpa may also refer to:

In government

In organizations and companies

In transportation

In other uses

Sherpa (delivery service)

Sherpa is an Australian company that provides on-demand delivery through technology and a network of crowdsourced couriers. Users can have anything delivered locally in less than 2 hours.

Operations

Sherpa operates in Sydney & Melbourne, Australia with operations soon to expand to Asia. Sherpa was founded in 2014 by Mathieu Cornillon, Ben Nowlan & Bastien Vetault.

Sherpa takes the concept of crowdsourcing, utilising the existing inventory of people and vehicles to provide a dynamic and true on-demand delivery solution for businesses and users.

Sherpa people

Sherpa (Tibetan: "eastern people", from shar "east" and pa "people") are an ethnic group from the most mountainous region of Nepal, high in the Himalayas.

Sherpa as a surname appears to be the result of the Nepalese government census takers. Not recognizing that some people only have one name, they wrote the word on census forms in the space for last name. In some cases the clan name was written and in others the ethnicity, i.e. Sherpa. These have then been adopted or forced to be used as last names, last names not being a part of Sherpa culture. A similar effect is seen with the Karen people, who also do not traditionally have more than one name and are a mobile mountain folk.

Most Sherpa people live in Nepal's eastern regions; however, some live farther west in the Rolwaling valley and in the Helambu region north of Kathmandu. Tengboche is the oldest Sherpa village in Nepal. The Sherpa language belongs to the south branch of the Tibeto-Burman languages; however, this language is separate from Lhasa Tibetan and unintelligible to Lhasa speakers.