High above the Himalayas, where the air grows thin and the risks rise, a drone roughly the weight of a baby yak, but with ...

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 ...

With the aim of releasing the Himalayan Climate Charter 2025, the Nepal Mountaineering Association, Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural ...

"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.

In the 1980s, Pasang Lhamu Sherpa's husband, Lhakpa Sonam Sherpa, created the Sherpa Hospitality Group. Her son Namgyal Sherpa-now the CEO of the group-was traveling with us.

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 ...

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, ...

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.

(In 1993, Pasang Lhamu Sherpa became the first to summit the mountain, but she died on her descent.) The very next year, Lhakpa summited Everest again, less than three weeks after her mentor, ...

On May 18, 2000, she became the first Nepali woman to reach the summit of Everest and return safely (in 1993, Pasang Lhamu Sherpa summited Everest but died during the descent).