“Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa” is a documentary directed by Lucy Walker.
In Connecticut, USA, a woman lives and works in a supermarket and leads a life like any other life of an American: she has a daughter and lives humbly, working about eight or nine hours a day. As she herself says: it’s like a prison and, when she finishes, it looks like someone has bailed her out.
But Lhakpa Sherpa is also a world-record holder and became in 2016 the first Nepalese woman to ascend and descend Everest. Lhakpa Sherpa has climbed Mount Everest no less than ten times, also a world record holder.
A mountain that is a symbol, a world-class climber with an obsession: climbing.
“Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa” is a documentary about an ascent in 2022 by Lhakpa Sherpa, a Nepalese woman who belongs to the Sherpas, a community whose individuals all share the same surname and whose name is chosen by the day they were born. Lhakpa is the name given to those born on Wednesday.
“Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa”: a documentary about Lhakpa Sherpa
“Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa” is a documentary that wants to go beyond mountaineering and delves into Nepalese culture through the life of this woman, who will tell us anecdotes from her childhood, allow us to meet her family in the United States to finally accompany her on her ascent to Everest.
Lhakpa Sherpa is very communicative and does not hesitate to tell us curiosities about her life, her childhood and Nepal. Thus, “Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa” becomes a documentary full of tenderness, kind and familiar of a woman who, despite holding several world records, lives as a person with all the difficulties.
However, “Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa” does not delve into the tragedy or the circumstances of the separation with her husband, no. Lhakpa Sherpa leaves us with a clear message of constant overcoming and facing difficulties with fortitude and admirable calmness.
Our opinion.
“Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa” is a charming documentary that seeks at all times the feeling and closeness to the main character. It is a documentary about mountaineering that goes beyond its own nature and delves into the Nepalese culture and the personal life of this admirable woman who, once again, faces an impossible climb for many.
