
PASANG: In the Shadow of Everest
CHARLIE FOWLER BEST ADVENTURE FILM - MountainFilm | BEST FILM, MOUNTAIN CULTURE - BANFF Mountain Film Festival | SCREENED IN OVER 30 FESTIVALS WORLDWIDE AND WON 15 AWARDS Human Rights • Women's Rights • Women's Studies • Women's Empowerment • Indigenous Studies • Ethnic Studies • Buddhism • South Asia • Nepal • Mountaineering Date of Completion: 2022 | Run Time: 71 minutes | Language: English, French & Nepali with French & Spanish subtitles | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Director: Nancy Svendsen | Producers: Nancy Svendsen, Sharon Wood & Christy McGill | Writer: Sharon Wood | Editor: Jeffrey Friedman | Composer: Todd Boekelheide | Associate Producer: Andrea Pierpont 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,