Publications

2026

Reed, G., Sherpa, P.Y., Carmona, R., and Chakraborty, R. (2026). Policy Guide for the Ethical and Equitable Engagement of Indigenous Peoples and their Knowledge Systems within the UNFCCC. University of British Columbia, Assembly of First Nations, International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, and Tohu Indigenous Analytics.

2026

Sherpa, P.Y., Reed, G., Carmona, R., Chakraborty, R. (2026). Recommendations for the Ethical and Equitable Engagement of Indigenous Knowledge Systems within the IPCC. University of British Columbia, Assembly of First Nations, International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs and Tohu Indigenous Analytics.

2026

Allison, E., Ceruti, C., Muhumuza, M., Salas Carreño, G., Sherpa, P.Y. and Lizaga Villuendas, I., (2026). Melting ice and transforming beliefs. Nature Climate Change, 16(2), pp.118-122.

2026

Whyte, K. and Sherpa, P.Y., (2026). Indigenous Peoples' Leadership in Environmental Science Assessments. In The Routledge Handbook of Values and Science (pp. 348-362). Routledge.

2025

Sherpa, P.Y., (2025). Relevance of the Sixth IPCC Assessment Report to Indigenous lived realities. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 21(3), pp.463-471.

2018

Guest editor with Charlotte Eubanks. 2018. Special Issue on “Indigeneity” for Verge: Studies in Global Asias 4 (2). University of Minnesota Press.

2024

Sherpa, P. Y., Chakraborty, R., & Carrara, A. (2024). 10 Indigeneity. Introducing Human Geographies, 129.

2018

Sherpa, P. Y. (2018). Introduction: Continuing Community Collaborations and the Transient Digital. Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 4(2), 54-56.

2009

Sherpa, P. Y. (2009). Indigenous movements: identification of indigenous concerns in Nepal. MA thesis.(Washington State University).

2019

Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2019). Preserving Sherpa Language and Culture in New York. Book 2.0 9(1).

2019

Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2019). "Indigenous Sherpa Religion," in Marine Carrin, Michel Boivin, Gerard Toffin, Paul Hockings, Raphael Rousseleau, Tanka Subba and Harald Lambs-Tyche (eds.), Brill's Encyclopedia of the Religions of the Indigenous People of South Asia Online.

2023

Sherpa, P.Y. (2023). “Questioning Indigeneity,” The Mail, The New Yorker, March 13, 2023.

2021

“Mountain As Metaphor: A Future of Multiple Worldviews” in Alpinist 75.

December 29, 2017 

The New York Times "Letter to the Editor" about the article "Deliverance from 27,000 feet"

September 2017

"Explaining Ethnography in the Field: A Conversation Between Pasang Yangjee Sherpa and Carole McGranahan" for Savage Minds [Anthrodendum].

May 2017

"Looking in the Mirror (Part 1, 2, and 3)" for Savage Minds [Anthrodendum].

2007

Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2007) “Identification of New Tourism Product, Solukhumbu.” Pro-Poor Rural Tourism Initiatives and its Sustainability in Nepal. TRPAP-UNDP, Nepal

March 2020

"The Mounting Risks of Summiting Mount Everest." Top of Mind with Julie Rose on BYU Radio.

May 2019

"Sherpas on Everest: 'This is a Sacred Mountain. We Need to Respect It." The Daily Beast.

April 2019

"The Story about Dead Bodies on Everest that Got 3m Hits." Over to You on BBC World Service.

May 2014

"Everest on Edge." The Stream on Al Jazeera English discuss the 2014 spring disaster on Mt. Everest.

April 2014

"When You Call Someone a Sherpa, What Does that Mean?" PRI's The World.

April 2014

"Deaths on Everest Put Spotlight on Sherpa Labor," interview  by Rob Verger for Newsweek.

April 2014

"Everest Shrugged: Why the deadliest day on the world’s tallest mountain won’t change the lives of Nepal’s sherpas," interview by Kyle Knight for Foreign Policy.

2026

Reed, G., Sherpa, P.Y., Carmona, R., and Chakraborty, R. (2026). Policy Guide for the Ethical and Equitable Engagement of Indigenous Peoples and their Knowledge Systems within the UNFCCC. University of British Columbia, Assembly of First Nations, International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, and Tohu Indigenous Analytics.

2026

Sherpa, P.Y., Reed, G., Carmona, R., Chakraborty, R. (2026). Recommendations for the Ethical and Equitable Engagement of Indigenous Knowledge Systems within the IPCC. University of British Columbia, Assembly of First Nations, International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs and Tohu Indigenous Analytics.

Contributing Author, Chapter 17 “Decision Making Options for Managing Risk” of the IPCC WGII Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).

Contributing Author, Chapter 2 “High Mountain Areas” of the IPCC Special Report on the Oceans and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).

2026

Allison, E., Ceruti, C., Muhumuza, M., Salas Carreño, G., Sherpa, P.Y. and Lizaga Villuendas, I., (2026). Melting ice and transforming beliefs. Nature Climate Change, 16(2), pp.118-122.

2026

Whyte, K. and Sherpa, P.Y., (2026). Indigenous Peoples' Leadership in Environmental Science Assessments. In The Routledge Handbook of Values and Science (pp. 348-362). Routledge.

2025

Sherpa, P.Y., (2025). Relevance of the Sixth IPCC Assessment Report to Indigenous lived realities. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 21(3), pp.463-471.

2024

Sherpa, P. Y. (2024). Climate Change in Nepal through an Indigenous Environmental Justice Lens. In Environmental Justice in Nepal (pp. 217-224). Routledge.

2024

Sharon Stein, Cash Ahenakew, Will Valley, Pasang Y. Sherpa, Eva Crowson, Tabitha Robin, Wilson Mendes, and Steve Evans (2024). Toward more ethical engagements between Western and Indigenous sciences. FACETS. 9: 1-14.

2023

Chakraborty, R., Rampini, C., & Sherpa, P.Y. (2023). Mountains of Inequality:encountering the politics of climate adaptation across the Himalaya. Ecology & Society. 28 (4).

2023

Johnson, L., Mikulewicz, M., Bigger, P., Chakraborty, R., Cunniff, A., Griffin, P.J., Guermond, V., Lambrou, N., Mills-Novoa, M., Neimark, B. and Nelson, S., 2023. Intervention: The invisible labor of climate change adaptation. Global Environmental Change, 83, p.102769.

2021

Chakraborty, R., & Sherpa, P. Y. (2021). From climate adaptation to climate justice: Critical reflections on the IPCC and Himalayan climate knowledges. Climatic Change. 167(3): 1-14.

2021

Chakraborty, R., Gergan, M. D., Sherpa, P. Y., & Rampini, C. (2021). A plural climate studies framework for the Himalayas. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 51: 42-54.

2023

Sherpa, P. Y., & Puschiasis, O. (2023). A Reflexive Approach to Climate Change Engagement with Sherpas from Khumbu and Pharak in Northeastern Nepal (Mount Everest Region). In Anthropology and Climate Change (pp. 224-241). Routledge.

2021

Sherpa, P. Y. (2021). Nepal’s climate-change cultural world. The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate: Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate. Ed. Paul Sillitoe. Berghahn Books.

2015

Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2015), "Institutional Climate Change Adaptation Efforts among the Sherpas of the Mount Everest Region, Nepal," in Donald C. Wood (ed.) Climate Change, Culture, and Economics: Anthropological Investigations (Research in Economic Anthropology, Volume 35) Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.1 – 23

2014

Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2014). Climate change, Perceptions, and Social Heterogeneity in Pharak, Mount Everest Region of Nepal. Human Organization, 73(2), 153-161.

2014

Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2014) Climate Change Impacts among Sherpas: An Anthropological Study in the Everest Region, Nepal. Resources Himalaya Foundation, Kathmandu. Habitat Himalaya, 18(1).

2012

Sherpa, P. Y. (2012). Sherpa perceptions of climate change and institutional responses in the Everest region of Nepal. PHD Diss. (Washington State University).

September 2014

"Flooded with Memories in Nepal" for Glacier Hub.

March 3, 2014

"Engaged Anthropology Grant: Pasang Yangjee Sherpa" for The Wenner-Gren Blog.

2014

Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2014) "Investing in Youths to Connect Communities." In Himalayan Trail 2014. Kathmandu: Mountain Spirit.

2013

Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2013) "Understanding Climate Change in the Everest Region." In Annual Publication of Mountain Trail 2013.  Kathmandu: Mountain Spirit.

2013

Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2013) "Well-Intentioned Efforts and Unintended Consequences: A Case from Pharak." In Mountain Trail 2013, Quarterly Newsletter. Kathmandu: Mountain Spirit.

2012

Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2012) "Examining the Responses to the Effects of Climate Change from an Exclusionary/ Inclusionary Perspective in Pharak (Everest Region) of Nepal." In Research Reports of Research Fellows. Social Inclusion Research Fund, Nepal.

2020

Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2020) "Review of Life in Himalaya: An Ecosystem at Risk by Maharaj Pandit," HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies: Vol. 39: No. 2.

2019

Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2019) "Review of Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas by Karine Gagne," The Journal of Asian Studies, 78 (4), 960-961.

2018

Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2018) "Review of Sustainable Mountain Development: Getting the Facts Right by Jack D. Ives," HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies: Vol. 38 : No. 2 , Article 31.

2017

Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2017). "Review of Sherpa: Trouble on Everest by Jennifer Peedom,"HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies: Vol. 37 : No. 1 , Article 32.

2014

Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2014) "Review of 'Climate Change Modeling for Local Adaptation in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region (Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management, Volume 11)' edited by Armando Lamadrid and Ilan Kelman," HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies: Vol. 34 : No. 2 , Article 23.