I felt like if ever someone deserved having the best documentary made about them, its Lhakpa.
Two hours to school there and back every single day, Walker tells Deadline.
She says that shes a very good yellow school bus, but she didnt get an education.
Lhakpa Sherpa in ‘Mountain Queen’Netflix
To this day shes illiterate and its held her back so much.
She demonstrated her might to prove she could handle the task.
She picked up a rock.
Lhakpa Sherpa in ‘Mountain Queen’Netflix
She said, My cousin, this boy, cannot throw this rock.
I can throw this rock, look!
But that was the beginning of her having to work so extra hard for what she wanted.
She may have grown up without wealth, education, or opportunity, but she has never lacked determination.
Im a wild girl, nature girl, she says inMountain Queen.
I want what my heart want.
Lhakpa found love twice, but not the fairytale kind.
She had a son by a Nepali man, but he cheated on her.
They made a life together in Connecticut, raising their two daughters Sunny and Shiny.
George could climb it without supplemental oxygen, despite smoking and drinking during ascents.
But the relationship with Dijmarescu would almost cost Lhakpa her life.
She goes through this incredible suffering and yet she manages to keep climbing, Walker continues.
She says, Everest fixes my soul.
Everest is my doctor.
Its how she sort of works with all the difficulties shes been through and transcends them.
Lhakpa would go on to raise Sunny and Shiny as a single mother.
Shiny joins her mom for part of the ascent, ascending as far as basecamp.
I was just really grateful to have experienced it.
Sunny stayed home in Connecticut during that climb, appearing to suffer from depression.
And thats going to be really impactful.
