Award-winning documentary, PASANG: in the Shadow of Everest is now available in the US and UK on Amazon Prime Video and online worldwide. The film will be made available on other platforms soon.
Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest is a 2022 biographical documentary about Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, the first Nepali woman to summit Mount Everest on .
The story of Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, the first Nepali woman to summit Mt. Everest. Her courageous, historic, and tragic journey would inspire a nation and generations to come.
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Drawing on interviews with family members and fellow climbers, “Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest” describes the various social, national and financial obstacles that Sherpa encountered.
PASANG: In the Shadow of Everest chronicles Pasang Lhamu Sherpa's tragic and inspiring journey to become the first Nepali woman to summit Everest in 1993.
As told by the Nepalis who knew her, by some of the world’s most notable alpinists, and by Pasang herself, Pasang: The Shadow of Everest, documents her historic quest that would transfix her country and uplift a new generation’s belief in its possibilities.
As an uneducated, indigenous woman and a Buddhist in a Hindu kingdom, Pasang's dream to scale the legendary mountain pits her against her family, foreign climbers, her own government, and nature itself.
'Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on Google Play Movies, Prime Video, YouTube, Apple TV Store in the US.