Mountain Queen The Summits Of Lhakpa Sherpa 202... ⏰

The first Nepali woman to summit and survive Everest twice, Lhakpa Sherpa battles treacherous peaks, poverty, and an abusive marriage—not for glory, but to prove that a daughter of the Himalayas can rise as high as any mountain.

They called her "Lhakpa the Lucky." But luck had nothing to do with it. Mountain Queen The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa 202...

She climbed alone.

The summit push was brutal. A storm pinned her team down at the Balcony (8,400m) for 16 hours. Her guide, a man half her age, turned back. "Too dangerous," he said. The first Nepali woman to summit and survive

She planted five prayer flags: one for each of her Everest summits (she would go on to climb it ten times, more than any other woman in history). And one for every woman told she was not enough. The summit push was brutal

Lhakpa Sherpa has summited Everest ten times—more than any other woman in history. She still does not have a corporate sponsor. She still climbs for her mother, her children, and every girl who has ever been told to stay low.

In the village of Balakharka, high in Nepal’s Dolakha district, Lhakpa was born into a yak-herding family with thirteen children. Her mother, Yangji, would wake before dawn to churn butter tea, her hands cracked from wind and altitude. "A daughter is like water," neighbors said. "She flows into another’s home."