LoginKanchha Sherpa, Last Member of First Team to Conquer Everest, Dies at 92
A trip to India to find work led to a career climbing the world’s highest mountain.
Kanchha Sherpa in Nepal in May. He carried 60 pounds of gear, fixed ropes and scouted the trail for the 1953 expedition up Mount Everest.
© Jason Gulley for The New York Times
