Kami Rita, who comes from Thame village in the Solukhumbu district, home to Everest and other peaks, could not be reached for comment as he was descending to lower camps on Wednesday.
His company said in a statement he had “dedicated his life to mountaineering and has become synonymous with the world’s highest peak”.
Sherpas are known for their climbing skills and many make a living guiding foreign clients up Everest and other mountains.
May is the ideal time for tying to reach the top of Everest, with clear weather before the monsoon arrives from the south, bringing cloud and snow to the peaks and rain to the low lands.
This year, Nepal has issued 478 permits, the most ever, for people to climb Everest compared with the previous record of 408 in 2021.
The Himalayan nation, which is heavily reliant on climbing, trekking and tourism for foreign exchange, has been criticized for allowing too many climbers, many of them inexperienced, to try for Everest’s summit.
Dangerous overcrowding can develop, especially at a bottleneck called the Hillary Step, just below the summit. In 2019, nine exhausted climbers died on Everest after queues built up of climbers going up and down.
Everest has been climbed more than 11,000 times, from both the Nepali and Tibetan sides, since it was first scaled in 1953, with many people going up multiple times.
More than 320 people have died on the mountain, hiking officials said.