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On the same May day Kami Rita logged his 32nd Everest summit, Lhakpa Sherpa quietly extended her own women's record to 11 — the most ascents of…
By Laxman Rawal · Jun 10, 2026
The "Everest Man" Kami Rita Sherpa grabbed the headlines this spring with his 32nd summit. But on that same May day, another Nepali legend rewrote the record books too — with far less fanfare than she deserved. Lhakpa Sherpa, the climber the world calls the…
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Lhakpa Sherpa's story is the stuff of films — and indeed one has been made about her. From humble beginnings in Nepal's mountains, through years of hardship, she has built a record no other woman has come close to: now eleven summits of the world's highest…
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Records like Lhakpa's do more than fill a list — they reshape who believes the mountains are for them. For the growing number of women choosing to trek and climb in Nepal, she is living proof that the Himalaya belongs to them too. It is the same spirit that…
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