Lhakpa Sherpa with her daughters, Shiny and Sunny; she also has a son named Nima In an effort to restore some of Everest’s pristine splendour, volunteer groups have been carrying out mass clean-ups on the mountain for years now. Distressingly, the bodies of many of those...
“They give me power,” Lhakpa Sherpa posted on her Facebook page. 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 ...
Ca y est, le 18 mai 5 personnes de notre equipe sont arrivees au sommet de l'Everest par son versant nord : 3 americains, 1 francais, moi-meme, et un sherpa, tous avec oxygene. Nous avons mis a profit une incertaine fenetre meteo, mais elle c'est averee payante. La 2 vague a ...
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...