Sherpa

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

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 1974 until 2005
 * 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 (book), a 2022 book by Pradeep Bashyal and Ankit Babu Adhikari
 * 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!