Kathmandu, February 5
Nepal’s Pasang Lhamu Sherpa has been named National Geographic’s Adventurer of the Year.
Pasang was among the 10 individuals and groups nominated for the award, decided through a public vote.
Pasang, who hails from Solukhumbu, is one of the first female mountaineering guides in Nepal.
Read her profile here.
Nat Geo said on its website that this year’s People’s Choice award recipient “turns all the adventure stereotypes upside down.”
“Mountaineer Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita, 31, grew up in Lukla, Nepal, in the shadow of Everest. By the time she was 15, she’d lost both her parents and was left to care for her six-year-old sister in a culture lacking opportunities for women. Still, she made her way up the world’s tallest peaks (K2 and Everest, to name a few) and has continued to work tirelessly to serve the disadvantaged in the aftermath of the April 2015 earthquake in Nepal,” the website goes on to say.
