not rated; 72 minutes; in English; Directed by: Nancy Svendsen
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 an uneducated, indigenous woman and a Buddhist in a Hindu kingdom, Pasang's dream to scale the legendary mountain pits her against family, foreign climbers, her own government, and nature itself. Pasang: In The Shadow of Everest, documents her historic quest that would transfix her country and uplift a new generation's belief in its possibilities.