I am born in the laps of mountains at the altitude of 3790m, where I can see the white lofted mountains all in my eyes from the small wooden window of my house there. This small ‘Sherpa tribal’ village is beautiful and very panoramic, its marvelous indeed with the main crops of potato. Born on 25-07-1969 as fourth child, I was raised by my father, Nima Tsering and Mother Tsering Doma along with other three sons and two daughters, so altogether we were eight members big family. The name Serap Jangbu is given so uniquely to me.

Since all Sherpas working in mountaineering and trekking, my father too followed the same profession of mountaineering and summer season is for us the farming, and also some other trade but the life is quite hard and struggling at that time. By age of nine, I started my Schooling at Khumjung Secondary School, which is established by Sir Edmund Hillary’s Himalayan Trust and by that time my elder brother already working in trekking.