A sherpa on Darjeeling tea hills in India. Sherpas, the “Eastern people” – in the Tibetan language pa means “people” and sher or shar means “East” – in the XV century started to settle in Nepal and India having left the Kham Tibet province and made it through Nang-pa La, an Himalaya pass at 5,716 meter altitude, to get away from Mongols. A migratory flow which had a second wave at the half of last century following Chinese occupation of Tibet.