“She is in a league of her own.” 🇳🇵 Netflix has revealed the main official trailer for a documentary film titled Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa, arriving for streaming on Netflix this summer. The film premiered at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival, then played at NYFF and this year’s Mountainfilm Festival in Telluride. In this doc film, a Nepali mountaineer risks everything on a record-breaking Everest climb to secure a brighter future for her daughters. It tells the story of a tenacious woman named Lhakpa Sherpa. Technically, she is not the first Nepalese woman to climb Everest – that honor goes to Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, however she died during her descent. Lhakpa is the first Nepalese woman to summit and descend – and she has since devoted her life to empowering girls. Now a single mother working at a Whole Foods in Connecticut, she embarks on a dramatic return to the mountain, determined to redeem her life’s purpose & inspire her own daughters. Through it all, Lhakpa climbs – her incredible strength and resilience inspired by her own Mother Goddess of the universe – Chomolungma. Worth a look if anyone is intrigued. // Continue Reading ›
Nepal Doc ‘Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa’ Trailer
