Film
Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest
About
Director
Nancy Svendsen
Producer
Sharon Wood, Christy McGill, Andrea Pierpont
Running time
71 minutes
Country / Nationality
United States
Our Judges say:
A story of a woman fighting for equality; this time in the shadow of Everest.Simon Taylor
Excellent profile of pioneering female Nepalese ckimber, Pasang Yangjee, which is also a fascinating social history of Nepal.Paul Hodgson Music Judge
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. Her determined pursuit of Everest plays out within the context of her nation’s quest for democracy and the emergence of the commercial climbing industry. 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.
