The story of Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, the first Nepali woman to summit Mt. Everest. Her courageous, historic, and tragic jou | dG1fRExRUVI3MWt4Rlk
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00:04 I'm trying to think of a time when a woman goes
00:07 after her dreams and her character is not questioned,
00:10 when her motivation is not questioned.
00:14 I had heard about a dream and her challenge
00:17 of being the first Nepalese woman to climb Everest.
00:19 It's hard to imagine how many barriers she had to overcome.
00:26 She was an ethnic minority.
00:27 She was a woman.
00:28 I'm sure she was rightfully outraged for not being allowed
00:31 to go to the top of Everest.
00:32 So it is natural for her to show the rest of the world,
00:35 say, listen, I can do this myself.
00:37 And in a male-dominated society, she
00:39 spoke to the hearts of many women
00:41 at the time who had no courage to do what she was doing.
00:44 Instead of just sitting and being patronized,
00:53 she's actually talking back and letting the prime minister
00:56 know what she thinks.
01:00 I don't think Passang was very involved politically
01:03 before that.
01:04 But after 1990, everything that anyone did in Nepal
01:08 had to be thought about in political terms.
01:10 Climbing Everest is a physical and mental marathon.
01:26 As a Sherpa, that's how we live, working as a guide.
01:30 Passang Lamu spoke of herself as representing
01:33 the Sherpa community, but also representing Nepali women.
01:38 That must have turned some people's world upside down.
01:43 I think my mom was so ahead of her time.
01:46 The day she went for a summit, all of a sudden,
01:52 the weather was changed.
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