{"id":74784,"date":"2025-10-17T01:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/16\/kanchha-sherpa-last-surviving-member-of-first-team-to-reach-mount-everest-summit-dies"},"modified":"2025-10-17T01:12:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:12:02","slug":"last-surviving-member-of-first-team-to-conquer-everest-dies-aged-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74784","title":{"rendered":"Last surviving member of first team to conquer Everest dies aged 92"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kanchha Sherpa was part of expedition that put Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary atop world\u2019s highest peak in 1953<\/p>\n<p>Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the mountaineering expedition team that first conquered Mount Everest, has died at the age of 92, according to the Nepal Mountaineering Association.<\/p>\n<p>Kanchha died early on Thursday at his home in Kapan, Kathmandu district, said Phur Gelje Sherpa, the association\u2019s president.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/16\/kanchha-sherpa-last-surviving-member-of-first-team-to-reach-mount-everest-summit-dies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanchha Sherpa was part of expedition that put Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary atop world\u2019s highest peak in 1953Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the mountaineering expedition team that first conquered Mount Everest, has died at the age of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3346,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[608,239,241,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mount-everest","category-mountaineering","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74785,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74784\/revisions\/74785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}