PASANG: In the Shadow of Everest chronicles Pasang Lhamu Sherpa's inspiring journey to become the first Nepali woman to summit Everest in 1993. As an uneducated, indigenous woman and a Buddhist in a Hindu kingdom, Pasang's dream to scale the legendary mountain pits her against her family, foreign climbers, her own government, and nature itself.
PASANG: In the Shadow of Everest chronicles Pasang Lhamu Sherpa's inspiring journey to become the first Nepali woman to summit Everest in 1993. As an uneducated, indigenous woman and a Buddhist in a Hindu kingdom, Pasang's dream to scale the legendary mountain pits her against her family, foreign climbers, her own government, and nature itself.
