Mingma Dorchi Sherpa

Mingma Dorchi Sherpa is a Nepali Sherpa mountaineer and trekking guide from Sankhuwasabha District in eastern Nepal, born in 1987. He left school in 2001 to work as a porter, ran a small tea shop at Makalu base camp from 2004 to 2008, and returned to the mountains as a climbing guide in 2010, making his first Everest summit in the spring of 2011. On 27 May 2019 he set a Guinness World Record for the fastest combined ascent of Mount Everest and Lhotse, 6 hours and 1 minute, beating the earlier time of fellow Nepali climber Nirmal Purja. He has also completed the Seven Summits and four of the Volcanic Seven Summits, and is a director of the adventure company Pioneers Adventure Pvt Ltd.