May 8, 2024 | 5.31pm
The first Nepalese woman to obtain the mountain guide license will be a guest of the Cinema Monviso on Saturday 18 May at 9pm.
To the program of Cuneo Mountain Festival – Tuesday 14 May, Sunday 19 May – after the great climber Tommy Caldwell, another international guest is added: on Saturday 18 May, in fact, he will arrive at the festival from Nepal Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita, the first Nepalese woman to obtain a mountain guide license.
Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita was also the first woman to climb Nangpai Gosum II, a very difficult mountain on the border between Nepal and China, whose peak reaches 7300 metres. During the 2015 earthquake you offered all possible help to the populations affected by the earthquake and are doing your utmost to create a center for women’s education in Nepal. In Cuneo – Saturday 18 May at Cinema Monviso at 9.00 pm – Pasang will reflect on her personal successes, her personal commitment to the mountains, and will let the audience discover how much the mountains have meant to her. With an always clear ideal in mind: “Everyone has the right to follow their dreams”.
Akita was the first woman to climb Nangpai Gosum II, in 2006. In 2007, she climbed Mount Everest, 14 years after another climber of the same name, Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, became the first Nepalese woman to climb l ‘Everest but died on the way down. Akita she climbed K2 in 2014 as part of a three-woman team, the first team of Nepalese women to climb the mountain. Climbing with Akita were Maya Sherpa and Dawa Yangzum Sherpa; they were part of a larger expedition that also included other (male) Sherpas and climbers. The climb was dedicated to climate change awareness and took place on the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of K2. She has also climbed Yala Peak, Ama Dablam, Lobuche, Imja Tse, and Aconcagua. In addition to mountaineering in Nepal, she has led mountaineering expeditions in the United States, Argentina, France, and Pakistan
