Dawa Futi Sherpa, daughter of Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, at the film's premier. Photos: PASANG LHAMU FOUNDATION. The Sherpa high altitude guides who take climbers to the tops of Himalayan peaks and glory ...

Many have heard the names Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, the mountaineers from New Zealand and Nepal who in 1953 were the first men to summit Mt. Everest. Climbing enthusiasts will have heard ...

On April 25, 2015, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook Nepal, killing more than 8,800 people, injuring thousands more, leaving 2.5 million people homeless, and triggering massive avalanches on Everest.

The US Geological Survey (USGS), America's largest water, earth, and biological science and civilian mapping agency, has named a crater at the Moon's South Pole after the first Nepali woman to summit ...

This documentary tells the story of Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, the first Nepali woman to summit Earth’s highest mountain. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

Climbing Mount Everest was not on Nancy Svendsen’s bucket list. She wasn’t even all that interested in the stories of climbers who ascended the world’s highest mountain. Yet the Ross resident was ...

Nepal's Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita has been nominated National Geographic People’s Choice Adventurer of the Year 2016. Apart from being a highly talented mountainer, Pasang Lhamu distinguished herself ...

KATHMANDU: Today marks the 26th anniversary of Pasang Lhamu Sherpa's successful ascent of Sagarmatha or Mount Everest. Addressing the Pasang Foundation Day here today, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli ...

Thame, a village near Everest and the birthplace of legendary Sherpa climbers such as Apa Sherpa and Kami Rita Sherpa, was flooded earlier today. Locals suspect a glacial lake burst its banks and fear ...

A new mum has conquered a deadly 6,000m peak so that she can be an inspiration for her two-year-old son. Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita, 37, is an accomplished climber having summited Mount Everest and K2, ...

Born in Khumjung in Nepal’s Everest region, Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita recalls watching tourists coming from afar to climb the mountains near her home when she was a little girl. By the time she’d ...