Babu Chiri was born on 22, June 1965 in Taksindu Village of Solukhumbu district. Chiri was the third offspring in his family of 8 with 5 brothers and 3 sisters. His Father Lhakpa sherpa and Mother Pasi Sherpa are Yak herder and simple potato farmer living in the lap of the snow capped mountains...

He was married at the age of 15 with Ang Futi Sherpa. He has six daughters. They are Yandi Sherpa, Dali Sherpa, Lhakpa Sherpa, Pasi Sherpa, Nima Sherpa and Tashi Sherpa. Mr. Chiri belongs to the Nepalese ethnic group Sherpa. Since there was no school in the village, he hadn't had opportunity to study. During his childhood, parents would have to send their children to the school located faraway from the village often walking for hours, which his parents could not afford. Since Taksindu was a trekking route, porters and mountaineers trailing along the route was a common sight for the growing Chiri. He would often watch these peak baggers in their pursuit and inevitably developed an interest in it having watched the trekkers so closely from his early childhood. When he actually took to his cherished interest, it was at the age of 13, he picked up this career of trekking along with his friends. It was then that he visited Kathmandu for the first time. Otherwise up to the age of 13, he was playing gloriously high up in the mountains.

Thus, to become a mountaineer was the decision taken by him. When he turned 13, he had to think of getting a job and so he started to work. He worked as a trekking porter for next 4 to 5 years and gradually developed confidence in his work. He has ascended the Mera Peak by himself when he was working as a trekking porter and at the age of 22, he joined the Kanchanjunga Expedition in 1989. It was the first and his earliest success entering in the field of mountaineering profession.

Chiri was not born to defeat nor was he born to give up. This contemporary superman is undoubtedly made up of tougher stuff. He tried climbing Everest for 15 to 16 times but was not successful in all his undertakings. He returned 2 times from the south face and another 2 times from the South Cole and sometimes from the Northeast face.

While climbing the mountain, he wanted to give effort in the field of education in his village, because it was impressed from the difficulties than during his childhood period. So, he announced that he would donate all his remuneration from the expedition and prizes for building a school in his home village of Taksindu. So, Chiri’s main aim has been to open up a school in the village and to give some kind of service or help to the old and poor people. Finally, he has successfully opened up a primary school named “Babu Chiri Bal Kalyan Primary School in Taksindu. Which is running class 3 and about 30 students are studying in that school. He was also thinking to set up another school in such a remote place but couldn’t succeed after unforgettable his accident while climbing the Mt. Everest on 29th April, 2001.

Babu Chiri Sherpa finally shot to fame as a world renowned Mountaineer. His name makes way in two of the Guinness Book of World Records. The 2000 Guinness World Records has it as “Longest stay on Mt. Everest” with an incredible record of 21 hours stay at the summit of Mt. Everest. The record is viewed as incredible because he was on the summit for such a long duration without the use of bottled oxygen. The usual practice has been that other mountaineers who reach the summit can not stay there for more than an hour. As though this achievement wasn’t enough Babu Chiri again went for another surprise by climbing Mt. Everest just weeks later to become the first person to conquer the Mt. Everest twice in the same season. 2001 Guinness world record has it as “Fastest Ascend of Mt.Everest”. On May 21, 2000 he reached the summit of Mt. Everest in 16hrs, 56min as against the previous records 20hrs, 24min set by Kaji Sherpa in 1998. It was also the 10th time Chirri had scaled the world’s highest peak. Beside that he has successfully climbed Kanchanjunga, Dhaulaghiri, Cho Oyu, Ama Dablam, and many peaks.

He was decorated by Suparbal Gorkha Daksinbhaw, first class- awarded by the then government His Majesty's Government of Nepal. Beside that he has been honoured by many national and international awards and felicitations.

Babu Chiri Sherpa, a veteran mountaineer, the hero of Mt. Everest died on 29th April, 2001. With the death of snow leopard Babu Chiri has lost an epitome of courage, determination and perseverance, difficult to surpass. An avoid adventure, the snow leopard met his untimely death while action in his endeavour to scale the highest mountain for the 11th time. On an expedition to Sagarmatha, sponsored by the Kathmandu Metropolitan Corporation, he fell 200 meters into a crevasse, located at 6,200 meters at Camp 2. His death body brought to Sherpa Service Center, Boudha - Kathmandu with the thousand of procession from the airport.

Prime Minister, Minster for culture, tourism and civil aviation, minister of state, Mayer of Kathmandu Municipality, various political leader, organisation, family members, friends, Sherpa community, mountaineers and all wishers arrived at the monastery of Sherpa service center and paid tributes to late Babu Chiri Sherpa. And finally, the death body has cremated at Swayambhunath with followed by Buddhist prayers.