Organization Background

Himalayan Sherpa Foundation is a non-profit organization formed in the year 2013. The idea was an initiation from the managing director of Himalayan Sherpa Adventure to use 5 percent of its profit in the development of the Khumbu region. The main reasons to form this foundation is to provide better education to the people in Khumbu, protect the environment in the mountainous region, and to protect its heritage sites, culture and religion.

Quickly after the devastating earthquake took place on 25th of April 2015, the Chairman of Himalayan Sherpa Foundation, Mr. Phurba Gyaltsen Sherpa, frequently paid visits to Khumbu and he witnessed many destructions of houses, schools, monasteries, hospitals and other important infrastructures. Realizing the importance of such infrastructures of the region, he has selected several most important infrastructures that had to be reconstructed as soon as possible to bring back the harmony to the society. Due to the heavy damages on such infrastructure, the local Sherpas of Khumbu were very saddened at the beginning. Since the houses, school, hospital and the monasteries where the Sherpa people practiced their regular ritual ceremonies had collapsed, the Sherpas believed that they lost everything.