U.S. Immigrant Is Everest Climber, Housekeeper

From Outside magazine: The Most Successful Female Everest Climber of All Time Is a Housekeeper in Hartford, Connecticut.

Lhakpa Sherpa was born in Nepal. She’s climbed Everest six times, making here the world-wide female record-holder.

The article focuses primarily on Lhakpa’s violent relationship with her ex-husband, another climber and a U.S. immigrant from Romania. It’s a dramatic tale, but not the most interesting part of the article.

What’s most compelling about the article is Lhakpa’s obscurity. She works not just as a housekeeper, as the Outside headline boasts, but also as a clerk at a 7-Eleven store. The article is a reminder that many immigrants to the United States work in jobs that bear little relationship to the people they were in the countries from which they emigrated. 

-KitJ