what are the difficult moments Pasang lhamu sherpa came across while ascending Mount Everest? If u dont know pasang lhamu is the first nepelese women to go to Mount everest
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On Oct. 5, 1990, French mountaineer Christine Janin became the first French woman to summit the peak of Mount Everest. She climbed the Earth’s highest mountain with a team composed of mostly French women, which was one reason Pasang Lhamu Sherpa stood out.
Pasang wasn’t French. She belonged to an ethnic group renowned for its prowess on the sharp and jagged peaks of the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges. She was Sherpa.Most of the French women on Janin’s team reached Everest’s peak, too. But on that day, Pasang would not summit. It wasn’t due to her lack of skill and fortitude. No, Pasang was ordered down by a man.
Just after Janin summited, Marc Batard, the Frenchman who led the expedition, demanded that Pasang descend before summiting. She was taking up too many resources, he said. But Batard likely had a different reason: He did not want the triumph of a white French heroine to be eclipsed by a brown Nepali one. If Pasang had reached Everest’s peak that day, she would have become the first Nepali woman to do so.
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In later interviews, Janin said that perhaps Batard had never expected Pasang to get so far. Batard thought of her as nothing more than a “housewife and a mother,” he explained.
Pasang was married and a mother to three children. But she was also a determined mountaineer who had spent her life defying societal norms. Batard was only a hurdle. Still, he taught her an important lesson that she would tuck away in her mind: A climber has to be in control of the expedition to get a spot at the summit.
Eventually, on April 22, 1993, Pasang did summit Everest. It was a glorious day for Nepal, but the light quickly vanished when Pasang died on her descent. The people of Nepal mourned her death then, but they will celebrate the 25th anniversary of her climb today.