Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita, one of Nepal’s rising climbing stars, tirelessly helped in relief efforts in the most remote mountain villages. Learn her story, then vote for the People's Choice.

Pasang Lhamu, born the only daughter of a Sherpa mountaineer, was not allowed to go to school or mountaineering with her brothers like the majority of Nepali women of her time. She eloped, escaping an ...

"Pasang Lhamu Sherpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and now has a crater named for her on the summit of an important lunar South Pole mountain," the USGS announced.

Summiting Everest would be the feat of a lifetime for almost anyone. For Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, the first Nepali woman to reach the peak, it also meant challenging traditional gender norms in Nepal.

Yet the Ross resident was enthralled when she learned about Pasang Lhamu Sherpa — the first Nepali woman to summit Mount Everest who died on her descent on April 22, ...

Pasang Lhamu Sherpa summited Everest in 1993 but didn’t make it down alive. The wife of the powerful Lhakpa Sonam Sherpa, owner of Thamserku Trekking, she had attempted Everest three times ...

The Sherpa language has been classified as vulnerable by UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. ... "All my childhood, I was always away from my family," Pasang Lhamu Sherpa said.