{"id":50922,"date":"2022-12-06T15:30:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T06:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/dec\/06\/nepal-record-breaking-female-mountaineers-a-photo-essay"},"modified":"2022-12-06T15:30:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T06:30:04","slug":"your-mother-is-in-the-mountains-nepals-record-breaking-female-mountaineers-a-photo-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50922","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Your mother is in the mountains\u2019: Nepal\u2019s record-breaking female mountaineers \u2013 a photo essay"},"content":{"rendered":"

A trio of ambitious Nepali climbers are among those reshaping the country\u2019s male-dominated mountaineering industry<\/p>\n

There is an irrestible energy in mountains, says Purnima Shrestha. \u201cThere have been so many memorable moments, all the challenges and successes. There is one video of me bawling on Kanchenjunga<\/a> [in the Nepal Himalayas] after a successful summit. It took us 22 hours to reach the top from base camp. I still feel emotional thinking about that incredible experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shrestha, 31, is among a new generation of Nepali women shattering societal expectations and the glass ceiling in Nepal\u2019s male-dominated mountaineering industry. Not only has she climbed seven of Nepal\u2019s 8,000m-plus peaks, she completed them in four years and eight months, becoming the fastest Nepali woman to do so. Now she has her sights set on becoming one of the few people in the world to complete the 14-summit challenge.<\/p>\n

Record-breaking mountaineer Purnima Shrestha<\/p>\n

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A trio of ambitious Nepali climbers are among those reshaping the country\u2019s male-dominated mountaineering industryThere is an irrestible energy in mountains, says Purnima Shrestha. \u201cThere have been so many memorable moments, all the challenges and succ…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,241,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50943,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50922\/revisions\/50943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}