Lhakpa Sherpa

Lhakpa Sherpa (also Lakpa) is a mountain climber and housekeeper. Lhakpa has climbed Mount Everest seven times, the most of any woman in the world.[1][2] in 2000 she became the first Nepalese woman to climb and descend Everest successfully. Lhakpa grew up in Makalu, Nepal as one of 11 children.[3] She has two daughters and one son,[2] and was married to George Dijmarescu, a Romanian-American, for 12 years.[2] They met in 2000 in Kathmandu, Nepal and got Married in 2002.[4][5] In 2016, she began again received recognition in various news as the woman with the most Everest summitings, and completed her seventh summit that year.[5][1]

Lhakpa grew up in Makalu Nepal, and in 2000 she was the leader of an expedition sponsored by Asian Trekking.[6] On September 18, 2000 she became the first Nepali woman to summit Mount Everest and survive (see also Pasang Lhamu Sherpa).[6] This climb was with the Nepali Women Millennium Expedition.[7]

In 2003, the U.S. PBS noted that she had summited Mount Everest three times, the most for a woman.[8] In May 2003 she reached the summit with her sister and brother; Ming Kipa and Mingma Gelu.[9] Her little sister Mingma reached the summit on May 22, 2003 when she was 15 years old (she climbed with Lhakpa and Gelu),[9] thus becoming the youngest woman and person known to have summited Mount Everest (see also Temba Tsheri and Jordan Romero ).[10][11] Her brother is Mingma Gelu Sherpa and is noted to have reached the summit of Mount Everest eight times by 2016.[2][5] The BBC noted that when three of them reached the summit together in 2003, that was the first group of three siblings on the summit at the same time, as recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records.[12] In 2004 there was an incident on the 2004 Connecticut Everest Expedition which caused some various discussions in the climbing.[13]

By 2007 George had summited Everest nine times since 1999 and Lhakpa six times.[14] That year they hosted a presentation about their 2007 Everest trip, with donations taken for Quaker Lane Cooperative Nursery School.[14] George and Lhapka summited Mount Everest 5 times together.[5] In 2008 George got cancer, which combined with medical bills was noted as one of the factors that created tension in the marriage.[15]

Lhapka is named for the day of the week she was born on (Wednesday).[5] Although born in Nepal, she is now a U.S. resident and a works at taking care of her three children and various jobs.[16] She has worked at the U.S. store 7 Eleven.[2][16] However, in interviews she noted her desire for the mountain, a condition previously seen in such climbers as George Mallory and Yuichiro Miura according to U.K media outlet The Daily Telegraph.[15]

In 2016 she summited Mount Everest from Tibet (China), making her seventh summit.[17] The president of Mount Everest Summiteers' Association, a Nepali women and high-altitude worker Maya Sherpa also summited, but from Nepal.[17] Maya Sherpa is another record-setting Nepali woman, and she has also summited K2.[17]

Climbing history

Everest summitings:

  1. 2000[4]
  2. 2001[16]
  3. 2003[16][8]
  4. 2004[16][18]
  5. 2005[16][19]
  6. 2006[16][20]
  7. 2016[1][17]

Additional expeditions:

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "7-Eleven worker becomes first woman to climb Mount Everest seven times". Rawstory.com. 2016. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Schaffer, Grayson (2016-05-10). "The Most Successful Female Everest Climber of All Time Is a Housekeeper in Hartford, Connecticut". Outside Online. Retrieved 2016-05-11.
  3. ↑ "Mt. Everest 2005: Lakpa Sherpa". www.everestnews.com. Retrieved 2016-05-11.
  4. 1 2 About to scale peak a seventh time, Connecticut 7-Eleven clerk is Everest’s greatest ever female climber Barney Henderson, The Telegraph | May 16, 2016 12:12 PM ET
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Mt Everest's greatest female climber back for 7th ascent
  6. 1 2 "Mt. Everest 2005: Lakpa Sherpa". Everestnews.com. 2000-05-18. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  7. ↑ Nepal's Lhakpa Sherpa: 'I want to climb Everest 10 times' 15 June 2016
  8. 1 2 PBS - Reaching for a Record
  9. 1 2 "Everest 2003: Romanian Mt. Everest Expedition North Side". Everestnews.com. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  10. ↑ Glenday, Craig (2010), Guinness World Records 2010: Thousands of New Records in The Book of the Decade!, p. 210, ISBN 978-0-553-59337-2, retrieved 2011-07-22
  11. ↑ THT 10 years ago: Ming Kipa's record was happenstance‚ says sister, 2013, retrieved 2013-05-28
  12. ↑ Nepal's Lhakpa Sherpa: 'I want to climb Everest 10 times' 15 June 2016
  13. ↑ Nepal's Lhakpa Sherpa: 'I want to climb Everest 10 times' 15 June 2016
  14. 1 2 "Everest Summiters Lakpa Sherpa and George Dijmarescu slide show/video presentation open to the public". Everestnews.com. 2000-05-18. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  15. 1 2 Everest's greatest ever female climber: Lhakpa Sherpa - the unknown mountaineering hero who works in a 7-Eleven in Connecticut
  16. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mt Everest's greatest female climber back for 7th ascent
  17. 1 2 3 4 Pokhrel, Rajan (20 May 2016). "Two Nepali women atop Mt Everest as summit push continues". The Himalayan Times. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  18. ↑ "Himalayan Database Expedition Archives of Elizabeth Hawley". Himalayandatabase.com. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  19. ↑ Himalayan Database - Spring 2005 Everest
  20. ↑ as Ms. Lakpa/Lhakpa Sherpa (Tashigaon, Nepal)?
  21. ↑ Nepal's Lhakpa Sherpa: 'I want to climb Everest 10 times' 15 June 2016


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