On a blistering July day, Lhakpa Sherpa— whose remarkable story is told in the documentary “Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa” — is leading a hike that has most of the group huffing and mopping their brows. But the 50-year-old Sherpa, clad in sandals and wrapped in a ...
Lhakpa Sherpa, who lives in West Hartford with her two daughters, holds the world record for the most number of summits of Mount Everest by a woman, and has no plans to stop climbing. Lhakpa Sherpa (right) with her niece Jangmu (from left), Interval House CEO Mary Jane Foster, and ...
A crew working a documentary about Sherpa accompanied her on the climb to the summit this year. Eric Nelson, whose son, Chris, is directing the documentary, said Shiny was able to watch her mother via video from base camp. Gelbu Goparma Sherpa told We-Ha.com that Shiny plans to accompan...
Lhakpa Sherpa takes public transportation to work. No one around her suspects she has summited Mount Everest in her homeland several times. That jaw-dropping feat of physical and mental discipline is an even greater accomplishment considering her upbringing as an illiterate...
Documentary expertly follows the only woman to have climbed the mountain 10 times through spectacular scenery and a traumatic personal lifeThis portrait of title subject Lhakpa Sherpa, the only woman to have summited Mount Everest 10 times, is so densely packed with uplifting moments that at times...