Everest Obsession: The Pasang Lhamu Case – Explorersweb »

The autumn of 1990 broke all previous records for the number of climbers attempting Himalayan mountains. Seventy-eight expeditions of 553 foreign climbers, accompanied by 217 Sherpas, flocked to the base camps. On Everest alone, there were 12 different expeditions that season. Until then, from Hillary and Tenzing’s success till then, 325 people had climbed Everest, including 43 without bottled oxygen. Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, the first Nepali woman on the summit of Mont Blanc earlier in 1990. Photo: Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Family A Nepali female climber appears The first woman to summit the highest mountain on Earth was Japan’s Junko Tabei, on May 16, 1975, with supplemental O2. The first woman to climb it without O2 was 27-year-old New Zealander Lydia Bradey, on October 14, 1988. But in the early 1990s, no Nepali woman had reached the top with or without O2. Then in 1990, 28-year-old Pasang Lhamu Sherpa showed up. She wanted to be the first Nepali woman to reach the top of the world. Pasang Lhamu Sherpa on her first Everest attempt in 1990. Photo: Pascal Tournaire Escape from the old rules of the society Pasang Lhamu, a daughter of mountaineers and already a mother of three children, had…
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