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 LATE PEMBA DOMA SHERPA (Director): Although Pemba is no more with us today, she was the founder director of Climb High and the first Nepali woman to conquer Everest from the north side and one of only six women, who had scaled the mountain twice as part of the 2002 Nepalese women Expedition (South Face). Raised by her grandparents after losing her mother at the age of two, Pemba Doma was educated at the Khumjung School, one of 26 schools that Sir Edmund Hillary has established in the Solu Khumbu region since 1961. Pemba spoke nine languages and travelled around the world raising money for her non profit foundation, Save the Himalayan Kingdom, which educates Nepalese children, regardless of caste.
| In 2003 Pemba Doma Sherpa and her husband Rajen Thapa started Climb High, a trekking company that would organise treks and expeditons to some of the most popular peaks in Nepal and Tibet. |
Pemba & Rajen on the sumit of Lobuche East 2001 |
AWARDS:
- SUPRABAL PRASHIDDHA GORKHA DAKSHIN BAHU (National Award of Nepal) by His Majesty Late King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev of Nepal for MOUNTAINEERING.
- Gold medal for Mountaineering, Nepal.
- Sky Walk - The Soles of Records, Italy.
- Saint Vincent Award, Italy.
Pemba Doma Sherpa receiving the highest National Award (Gorkha Dakshin Bahu)
from Late King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev
Rajen Thapa receiving the Saint-Vincent award in memory
of
his wife Late Pemba Doma Sherpa
7th March 2007, Aosta Valley, Italy
PEMBA DOMA SHERPA IS FEATURED IN: Outside Magazine (USA), 50 years on Everest, April 2000 Resurgence Magazine, UK (Jan-Feb #228) " one of the six women who embrace the mountains on a daily basis" BBC documentary, Celebrating 50 years on Everest. Aspen Times, The Kathmandu Post, Kantipur, Himalayan Times and Nari magazine. Language: Fluent in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Nepali, Tibetan, Sherpa, and Hindi. Traveled: India, Tibet, Bhutan, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Holland, Austria, Belgium, England and USA. |
