{"id":"lhakpa-sherpa","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/lhakpa-sherpa","language":"en","name":"Lhakpa Sherpa","name_en":"Lhakpa Sherpa","name_ne":"लाक्पा शेर्पा","description":"Nepalese mountain climber form the nation of Sherpa having the maximum number of climbs on Everest","headline":"Nepalese mountain climber form the nation of Sherpa having the maximum number of climbs on Everest","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Lhakpa Sherpa is a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer. She has climbed Mount Everest 11 times, the most by any woman in the world. Her record-breaking 10th climb was on May 12, 2022, which she financed via a crowd-funding campaign. In 2000, she became the first Nepali woman to climb and descend Everest successfully. In 2016, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"1974","date":"1974"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24572241#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Makalu","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6738647","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/makalu-nepal"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24572241#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q837"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24572241#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"mountaineer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9149093"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24572241#P106"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"BBC 100 Women","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16153104","date":"2016"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24572241#P166"}},{"key":"instagram","label":"Instagram","values":[{"text":"mountain_queen_10","url":"https://www.instagram.com/mountain_queen_10/"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24572241#P2003"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[{"id":"early_life","title":"Early life and education","items":[{"text":"Lhakpa Sherpa was born in a cave one of 11 children, growing up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu, Nepal region of the Himalayas.","sources":[{"url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-61424866","title":"Lhakpa Sherpa: Woman climbs Everest for record tenth time","publisher":"BBC News","date":"2022-05-12"},{"url":"http://www.everestnews.com/everest2005/lapkasherpa2005.htm","title":"Mt. Everest 2005: Lakpa Sherpa","publisher":"Everest News","date":"2000-05-18"},{"url":"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/31/mount-everest-lhakpa-sherpa-climbed-nine-times-world-record","title":"She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn't she have sponsors?","publisher":"The Guardian","date":"31 October 2019"}]},{"text":"She carried her brother two hours to school and back.","sources":[{"url":"http://www.everestnews.com/everest2005/lapkasherpa2005.htm","title":"Mt. Everest 2005: Lakpa Sherpa","publisher":"Everest News","date":"2000-05-18"},{"url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-61424866","title":"Lhakpa Sherpa: Woman climbs Everest for record tenth time","publisher":"BBC News","date":"2022-05-12"}]},{"text":"Lhakpa is named for the day of the week she was born on (Wednesday).","sources":[{"url":"http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/80058324/mt-everests-greatest-female-climber-back-for-7th-ascent","title":"Mt Everest's greatest female climber back for 7th ascent","publisher":"Stuff","date":null}]},{"text":"Due to her lack of formal education, she has worked as a housekeeper and at various odd jobs, including for 7-Eleven and Whole Foods Market.","sources":[{"url":"http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/80058324/mt-everests-greatest-female-climber-back-for-7th-ascent","title":"Mt Everest's greatest female climber back for 7th ascent","publisher":"Stuff","date":null},{"url":"http://www.outsideonline.com/2078361/most-successful-female-everest-climber-all-time-housekeeper-hartford-connecticut","title":"The Most Successful Female Everest Climber of All Time Is a Housekeeper in Hartford, Connecticut","publisher":"Outside Online","date":"2016-05-10"},{"url":"https://www.climbing.com/people/lhakpa-sherpa-wil/","title":"Lhakpa Sherpa: What I've Learned (UPDATED: Tenth Everest Summit)","publisher":"Climbing","date":"2022-05-10"},{"url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/sports/lhakpa-sherpa-everest.html","title":"The Queen of Everest Trains While Working at Whole Foods","publisher":null,"date":null}]},{"text":"In interviews she has expressed her continued desire to continue her mountaineering activities, similar to such climbers as George Mallory and Yuichiro Miura.","sources":[{"url":"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/everests-greatest-ever-female-climber-lhakpa-sherpa---the-unknow/","title":"Everest's greatest ever female climber: Lhakpa Sherpa - the unknown mountaineering hero who works in a 7-Eleven in Connecticut","publisher":"The Daily Telegraph","date":"15 May 2016"}]},{"text":"She has two daughters, Sunny and Shiny, and one son, Nima, from a previous relationship.","sources":[{"url":"http://www.outsideonline.com/2078361/most-successful-female-everest-climber-all-time-housekeeper-hartford-connecticut","title":"The Most Successful Female Everest Climber of All Time Is a Housekeeper in Hartford, Connecticut","publisher":"Outside Online","date":"2016-05-10"}]}]},{"id":"career","title":"Career","items":[{"text":"In 2000 she was the leader of an expedition sponsored by Asian Trekking.","sources":[{"url":"http://www.everestnews.com/everest2005/lapkasherpa2005.htm","title":"Mt. Everest 2005: Lakpa Sherpa","publisher":"Everest News","date":"2000-05-18"}]},{"text":"On May 18, 2000, she became the first Nepali woman to summit Mount Everest and survive (see also Pasang Lhamu Sherpa).","sources":[{"url":"http://www.everestnews.com/everest2005/lapkasherpa2005.htm","title":"Mt. Everest 2005: Lakpa Sherpa","publisher":"Everest News","date":"2000-05-18"},{"url":"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/31/mount-everest-lhakpa-sherpa-climbed-nine-times-world-record","title":"She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn't she have sponsors?","publisher":"The Guardian","date":"31 October 2019"}]},{"text":"The climb was with the Nepali Women Millennium Expedition.","sources":[{"url":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-36410878","title":"I want to climb Everest 10 times","publisher":"BBC News","date":"15 June 2016"}]},{"text":"In 2003, PBS noted that she had summited Mount Everest three times, the most for a woman.","sources":[{"url":"https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/nepal/update.html","title":"Dreams of Chomolongma . Reaching for a Record","publisher":"Frontline","date":null}]},{"text":"In May 2003 she reached the summit with her sister and brother; Ming Kipa and Mingma Gelu.","sources":[{"url":"http://www.everestnews.com/everestnews3/romnorthdis5.htm","title":"Everest 2003: Romanian Mt. Everest Expedition North Side","publisher":"Everest News","date":null}]},{"text":"By 2007, Lhakpa Sherpa had summited Everest six times since 1999 and her husband summited nine.","sources":[{"url":"http://www.everestnews.com/everest2008/lapkasherpa2008.htm","title":"Everest Summiters [sic] Lakpa Sherpa and George Dijmarescu slide show/video presentation open to the public","publisher":"Everest News","date":"2000-05-18"}]}]},{"id":"decisions","title":"Key decisions and achievements","items":[{"text":"In 2016, she was listed among the BBC's 100 most inspirational and influential women.","sources":[{"url":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-38012048","title":"BBC 100 Women 2016: Who is on the list?","publisher":"BBC News","date":"18 November 2016"}]}]}],"cited_from":"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lhakpa_Sherpa&oldid=1371718857","videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhakpa_Sherpa","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24572241","https://www.instagram.com/mountain_queen_10/"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Lhakpa Sherpa born?","a":"Lhakpa Sherpa was born on 1974 in Makalu."}],"related":[{"name":"Tenzing Norgay","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/tenzing-norgay"},{"name":"Suman Pokhrel","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/suman-pokhrel"},{"name":"Manisha Koirala","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/manisha-koirala"},{"name":"Gyanendra of Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gyanendra-of-nepal"},{"name":"Birendra of Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/birendra-of-nepal"},{"name":"Nirmal Purja","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/nirmal-purja"},{"name":"Dipendra of Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/dipendra-of-nepal"},{"name":"Udit Narayan","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/udit-narayan"},{"name":"Śuddhodana","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/suddhodana"},{"name":"Mahendra of Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mahendra-of-nepal"},{"name":"Chandra Bahadur Dangi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/chandra-bahadur-dangi"},{"name":"B. P. Koirala","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/b-p-koirala"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/lhakpa-sherpa-cb9b10d263.jpg","width":500,"height":800,"license":"CC0","credit":"Hibrideacus","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_de_Lhakpa_Sherpa.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Lhakpa Sherpa","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhakpa_Sherpa","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): लाक्पा शेर्पा","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q24572241","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24572241","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Portrait de Lhakpa Sherpa.jpg by Hibrideacus (CC0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_de_Lhakpa_Sherpa.jpg","license":null},{"label":"Wikipedia (English), revision used for cited facts: Lhakpa Sherpa","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lhakpa_Sherpa&oldid=1371718857","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"BBC News: Lhakpa Sherpa: Woman climbs Everest for record tenth time (2022-05-12)","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-61424866","license":null},{"label":"Everest News: Mt. Everest 2005: Lakpa Sherpa (2000-05-18)","url":"http://www.everestnews.com/everest2005/lapkasherpa2005.htm","license":null},{"label":"The Guardian: She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn't she have sponsors? (31 October 2019)","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/31/mount-everest-lhakpa-sherpa-climbed-nine-times-world-record","license":null},{"label":"Stuff: Mt Everest's greatest female climber back for 7th ascent","url":"http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/80058324/mt-everests-greatest-female-climber-back-for-7th-ascent","license":null},{"label":"Outside Online: The Most Successful Female Everest Climber of All Time Is a Housekeeper in Hartford, Connecticut (2016-05-10)","url":"http://www.outsideonline.com/2078361/most-successful-female-everest-climber-all-time-housekeeper-hartford-connecticut","license":null},{"label":"Climbing: Lhakpa Sherpa: What I've Learned (UPDATED: Tenth Everest Summit) (2022-05-10)","url":"https://www.climbing.com/people/lhakpa-sherpa-wil/","license":null},{"label":"nytimes.com: The Queen of Everest Trains While Working at Whole Foods","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/sports/lhakpa-sherpa-everest.html","license":null},{"label":"The Daily Telegraph: Everest's greatest ever female climber: Lhakpa Sherpa - the unknown mountaineering hero who works in a 7-Eleven in Connecticut (15 May 2016)","url":"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/everests-greatest-ever-female-climber-lhakpa-sherpa---the-unknow/","license":null},{"label":"BBC News: I want to climb Everest 10 times (15 June 2016)","url":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-36410878","license":null},{"label":"Frontline: Dreams of Chomolongma . Reaching for a Record","url":"https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/nepal/update.html","license":null},{"label":"Everest News: Everest 2003: Romanian Mt. Everest Expedition North Side","url":"http://www.everestnews.com/everestnews3/romnorthdis5.htm","license":null},{"label":"Everest News: Everest Summiters [sic] Lakpa Sherpa and George Dijmarescu slide show/video presentation open to the public (2000-05-18)","url":"http://www.everestnews.com/everest2008/lapkasherpa2008.htm","license":null},{"label":"BBC News: BBC 100 Women 2016: Who is on the list? (18 November 2016)","url":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-38012048","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Lhakpa Sherpa, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Portrait de Lhakpa Sherpa.jpg — Hibrideacus, CC0.","cite":"\"Lhakpa Sherpa\". DigiNepal. Last updated 7 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/lhakpa-sherpa. Retrieved 8 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-07T11:48:10Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-08","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/lhakpa-sherpa","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/lhakpa-sherpa","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/lhakpa-sherpa?lang=ne"}}