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Lhakpa Sherpa (Nepali: Lakhpa Sherpa; born 1973) [1] is a Nepalese Sherpa mountain climber. She has climbed Mount Everest ten times, the most by any woman in the world. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Her record-breaking tenth climb was on May 12, 2022, which she financed via a crowd-funding campaign. [ 4 ]
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa is a 2023 American documentary film directed by Lucy Walker. It follows Lhakpa Sherpa as she climbs and survives ten successful summits of Mount Everest. It had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2023, and is scheduled to be released on July 31, 2024, by ...
The film’s director, Lucy Walker, first learned about Sherpa in 2004, when she was in Tibet filming “Blindsight,” her acclaimed 2006 doc about blind teenagers climbing a mountain near Everest.
On November 28, 2016, highly acclaimed climbing Sherpa Lakpa Thundu Sherpa of Pangboche was killed when a 5.4 magnitude earthquake struck, triggering an avalanche and the release of a few ice blocks. Thundu was at 6,000 metres (19,680 ft) on the 6,812-metre (22,349 ft) mountain.
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Dawa Yangzum has climbed Everest several times [5] and she became the first female Nepali woman to summit the fifth highest peak Makalu on 29 May 2019. [6] [7] On 26 July 2014, she was part of the all female 3-member Nepali contingent to summit K2. The other prominent members were Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita and Maya Sherpa. [4]
A second woman hoping to be the first American female climber to scale all of the world's 8,000-metre (26,246 feet) mountains has been declared dead on a remote peak in Tibet, according to her family.
The all woman nature of the expedition was designed by Blum and Alison Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz during a 1972 expedition on Noshaq.Blum, who having previously been rejected from high altitude expeditions as a woman [2] stated “Few American women ever get a chance to climb that high, to lead, or even to participate in a major expedition.