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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 ...
Anna Gutu [a] (1990 or 1991 – October 7, 2023) was a Ukrainian-American climber and high-altitude mountaineer. She is known for her pursuit to become the first American woman, and the third overall American climber, to climb all 14 of the eight-thousanders (which are peaks above 8,000 meters in elevation).
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]
Nimdoma Sherpa (born 1991) from Gauri Sankar, Dolakha District is a Nepalese mountain climber.In 2008 she became the youngest woman to climb Mount Everest and in 2009 she joined the Seven Summits Women Team, a team of Nepalese women whose goal is to climb the Seven Summits.
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.
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North face of the Eiger. Alison Jane Hargreaves (17 February 1962 – 13 August 1995) was a British mountaineer.Her accomplishments included scaling Mount Everest alone, without supplementary oxygen or support from a Sherpa team, in 1995.