{"id":"pasang-dawa-lama","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pasang-dawa-lama","language":"en","name":"Pasang Dawa Lama","name_en":"Pasang Dawa Lama","name_ne":null,"description":"Nepalese mountaineer (1912–1982)","headline":"Nepalese mountaineer (1912–1982)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Pasang Dawa Lama was a Nepalese mountaineer / sirdar and a lama. Pasang is considered to be one of the greatest Sherpa mountaineers of the 20th century. He made the first ascent of Chomolhari 7,326 m (24,035 ft) with Spencer Chapman's expedition in 1937 and the first-ascent of the eight thousander Cho Oyu 8,188 m (26,864 ft) in 1954 whilst climbing with a party of Austrian mountaineers.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"1912","date":"1912"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2055244#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Khumbu","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1428329","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/khumbu"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2055244#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"15 September 1982","date":"1982-09-15"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2055244#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Darjeeling","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q169997"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2055244#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q837"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2055244#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"mountaineer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9149093"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2055244#P106"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasang_Dawa_Lama","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2055244"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Pasang Dawa Lama born?","a":"Pasang Dawa Lama was born on 1912 in Khumbu."}],"related":[{"name":"Mingma Sherpa","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mingma-sherpa"},{"name":"Dawa Yangzum Sherpa","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/dawa-yangzum-sherpa"},{"name":"Babu Chiri Sherpa","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/babu-chiri-sherpa"},{"name":"Chhang Dawa Sherpa","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/chhang-dawa-sherpa"},{"name":"Tenjen Sherpa","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/tenjen-sherpa"},{"name":"Mingma Gyabu Sherpa","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mingma-gyabu-sherpa"},{"name":"Pem Dorjee Sherpa","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pem-dorjee-sherpa"},{"name":"Pemba Doma Sherpa","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pemba-doma-sherpa"},{"name":"Phurba Tashi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/phurba-tashi"},{"name":"Sanu Sherpa","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/sanu-sherpa"},{"name":"Shriya Shah-Klorfine","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/shriya-shah-klorfine"},{"name":"Tejbir Bura","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/tejbir-bura"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/pasang-dawa-lama-5047d016be.jpg","width":200,"height":268,"license":"Attribution","credit":"Gerd Mehl († 2001)","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pasang-Dawa-Lama2.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Pasang Dawa Lama","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasang_Dawa_Lama","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q2055244","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2055244","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Pasang-Dawa-Lama2.jpg by Gerd Mehl († 2001) (Attribution)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pasang-Dawa-Lama2.jpg","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 Pasang Dawa Lama, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Pasang-Dawa-Lama2.jpg — Gerd Mehl († 2001), Attribution.","cite":"\"Pasang Dawa Lama\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/pasang-dawa-lama. Retrieved 5 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T07:01:58Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-04","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/pasang-dawa-lama","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/pasang-dawa-lama","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/pasang-dawa-lama?lang=ne"}}