Sherpa

The Sherpa people are an ethnic group in north eastern Nepal and Tibet.

Sherpa may also refer to:

Ethnography

• Sherpa language, the Tibetan language of the Sherpa people

Organizations and companies

• Sherpa (association), a French network of jurists dedicated to promoting corporate social responsibility
• Sherpa.ai, a Spanish artificial intelligence company
• Sherpa Capital, an American venture capital firm
• Sherpa (delivery service), an Australian courier company
• SHERPA (organisation), a UK-based project team with expertise in open access and repositories
  • SHERPA/RoMEO, a service to show copyright and policies of academic journals
• Cloud Sherpas, an American cloud implementation and migration company, active 2008–2015

Transportation

• Porter (carrier), often called a sherpa
• Mountain guide, also sometimes called a sherpa
• Leyland Sherpa, a light commercial vehicle produced from the 1970s until 2006
• Short C-23 Sherpa, a military variant of the Short 330 cargo aircraft, first flight was in 1982
• Short SB.4 Sherpa, an experimental British aircraft whose first flight was in 1955
• Super Sherpa, a 250 cc dual-purpose motorcycle produced by Kawasaki
• A series of military trucks produced by Renault Trucks Defense, including the Sherpa Light
• UP Sherpa Bi, a German paraglider design
• SHERPA (space tug), a kick start space tug and satellite dispenser

Other uses

• Agelena sherpa, a spider of family Agelenidae
• Sherpa (emissary), the personal representative of a head of state or government in the G20 or G7
• Sherpa (fabric), a fabric with a pile on one side
• Sherpa (film), a 2015 documentary film
• Sherpa Fire, a 2016 wildfire that burned in Santa Barbara County, California
• Sherpa Glacier, an alpine glacier in Washington state
• Sherpa Peak, a mountain in Washington state
• Sherpa (political consultant), a political consultant guiding a nominee to Senate confirmation
• Sherpa (surname), surname originating from the Himalayan region
• Yahoo Sherpa, a distributed key value datastore developed by Yahoo!

See also

• Sherpur (disambiguation)