Prakash Sherpa is the founder and CEO of Alpinist Climber Expeditions (ACE), and a certified IFMGA Mountain Guide, one of the most demanding qualifications in the mountaineering world. Since 2011, he has built a career defined by technical mastery, international training, and an unrelenting passion for the high mountains.
A family legacy in the mountains
Prakash didn't discover the mountains on his own. He was raised into them. His grandparents, father, and uncle were all respected mountain guides in their time, and it was under their guidance that Prakash took his first real steps into the profession that would define his life. At just 15 years old, he summited Mera Peak (6,476m) for the first time, a moment that set the direction for everything that followed. There was no turning back from there. Opportunities to work and climb in high mountains around the world began opening up, taking him from the Himalayas to the Alps of Europe and the Southern Alps of New Zealand.
8,000m summits, four without oxygen
Over the years, Prakash has built one of the most demanding climbing records among Nepal's mountain guides. He has successfully summited six of the world's fourteen 8,000m peaks: Everest, Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu, Dhaulagiri, Manaslu and K2. What sets his record apart is that four of these, Makalu, Cho Oyu, Dhaulagiri, and Manaslu, were climbed without supplementary oxygen, a feat that demands not just physical strength but an intimate understanding of how the body performs in the death zone. His technical range extends further still, with summits of Nuptse, Pumori, and Ama Dablam, peaks known as much for their difficulty as their beauty.
Certified at the highest level
Prakash holds the IFMGA / UIAGM / IVBV Mountain Guide certification, the same internationally recognised qualification held by only a small number of guides across Nepal. His training goes well beyond climbing technique, covering Helicopter Rescue and Marshalling, Advanced and Basic Mountaineering, Wilderness First Aid, Recco Rescue, and multiple levels of ski training completed across Nepal, Switzerland, Austria, and Chamonix. This layered training, built over more than a decade, is what allows him to lead expeditions with the calm, decisive judgment that high altitude mountaineering demands.
A career that spans continents
Between 2018 and 2025, Prakash summited Mount Everest five times and added a summit of K2 in 2025, cementing his place among guides with proven experience on the world's most extreme peaks. His expedition record below 8,000m is just as extensive, with dozens of climbs across Nepal's most technical mountains, Ama Dablam, Kyajo Ri, Lobuche East, Mera Peak, Island Peak, Baruntse, and Himlung Himal among them, including a notable 2022 speed ascent of Himlung Himal alongside German alpinist Benedikt Böhm.
His guiding work has also taken him abroad, leading climbs across New Zealand's Southern Alps, including Mount Cook and Mount Aspiring, and across the Alps of Europe, from the Matterhorn to Grossglockner. Alongside his expedition career, Prakash has guided trekkers through nearly every major trekking region in Nepal, from the Everest Base Camp and Three Passes treks to remote routes like Upper and Lower Dolpo and the Makalu Base Camp Trek.
Guiding Beyond The Summit
Today, Prakash leads Alpinist Climber Expeditions with the same discipline and care that shaped his own climbing career. As CEO, he ensures every expedition is built on thorough preparation, technical precision, and a genuine focus on each climber's safety and experience, standing on the summit is the goal, but for Prakash, the job isn't done until every climber is safely back down and carrying home a story worth telling.
He is a member of the IFMGA / UIAGM / IVBV, the NNMGA, and Alpenverein Austria, and has been a sponsored athlete with Dynafit since 2021.
Mountaineering Training
- IFMGA / UIAGM / IVBV Mountain Guide Training
- Helicopter Rescue and Marshalling
- Ski Level 1 Training (Nepal)
- Ski Level 2 Training (Switzerland)
- Ski Training (Chamonix)
- Advance Mountaineering Training
- Basic Mountaineering Training
- Basic Rescue Training
- Wilderness First Aid Training
- Rock Climbing Level One Training
- Ski Training (Austria)
- Recco Rescue Training
- First Aid Training
- Maps and Compass Reading
- Trekking Guide Training
Above 8000m Expeditions
- Mount Everest 8,848m / 2018
- Mount Everest 8,848m / 2019
- Mount Everest 8,848m / 2021
- Mount Everest 8,848m / 2024
- Mount Everest 8,848m / 2025
- Mount K2 8,611m / 2025
- Mount Lhotse 8,516m / 2021
- Mount Makalu 8,463m / 2016
- Mount Cho Oyu 8,188m / 2023
- Mount Dhaulagiri 8,167m / 2017
- Mount Manaslu 8,163m / 2017
Above 6000m & 7000m Expeditions
- Ama Dablam 6,812m (2017)
- Ama Dablam 6,812m (2018)
- Ama Dablam 6,812m (2019)
- Cholatse 6,440m (2022)
- Kyajo Ri 6,186m (2022)
- Chulu West 6,419m (2016)
- Lobuche east 6,119m (2022)
- Mera Peak 6,476m (2021)
- Island Peak 6,189m (2012)
- Lobuche East 6,119m (2018)
- Lobuche East 6,119m (2019)
- Mera Peak 6,476m (2012)
- Mera Peak 6,476m (2013)
- Mera Peak 6,476m (2015)
- Amphu Peak 6120m (2020)
- Himlung Himal 7126m (2022)
- Lobuche East 6119m (2022)
- Ama Dablam 6,812m (2022)
- Mera Peak 6,476m (2022)
- Baruntse 7,162m (2022)
- Himlung Himal 7126m (2022 - Speed Ascent)
- Island Peak 6,160m (2023)
- Pumori 7,161m (2023)
- Nuptse 7,861m (2023)
- Nirekha 6,159m (2024)
- Spantik 7027m (2024)
- Kyajo Ri 6186m (2024)
- Cholatse 6440m (2024)
- Kyajo Ri 6186m (2025)
- Kyajo Ri 6186m (2025)
Guiding & Climbing in New Zealand
- Mount Cook 3724m (2019)
- Mount Aspiring 3083m (2019 - 2 times)
- Mount Dixon 3004m (2019)
- Tasman Glacier, Hochstein 3000m (2019)
- Remarkables 2319m (2019 - 2 times)
Europe Alps
- Grossglocker 3798m
- Matterhorn 4778m
- Mount Olympus 2918m
Member
- IFMGA / UIAGM / IVBV
- NNMGA
- Alpenvereins Austria
Athlete
- Since 2021 with Dynafit
- Former Brand Ambassador of EBC-5364
