--- title: Nepalese Woman Climbs Mount Everest a Record Seventh Time description: A Nepalese woman just broke her own record and scaled Mount Everest for the seventh time. canonical: https://time.com/4342906/nepal-woman-mount-everest-record/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-20T13:24:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:32.775Z og:title: Woman Breaks Record by Climbing Mount Everest a Seventh Time og:description: She broke her own record for the most summits of Everest by a woman og:url: https://time.com/4342906/nepal-woman-mount-everest-record/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3d6255573d1d258/6988940ccf40a87382c4351e/lhakpa-sherpa-everest-record-7.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: NEPAL-MOUNTAINEERING-GENDER-QUAKE og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Woman Breaks Record by Climbing Mount Everest a Seventh Time twitter:description: She broke her own record for the most summits of Everest by a woman twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3d6255573d1d258/6988940ccf40a87382c4351e/lhakpa-sherpa-everest-record-7.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Woman Breaks Record by Climbing Mount Everest a Seventh Time > Sponsored content. 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But in a sign of changing times, a string of Sherpa women are now breaking records themselves, not only on 8,848-metre (29,029-foot) high Everest but other dangerous peaks. / AFP / PRAKASH MATHEMA / TO GO WITH AFP STORY NEPAL-MOUNTAINEERING-GENDER-QUAKE,FEATURE BY AMMU KANNAMPILLY (Photo credit should read PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images) Nepalese mountaineer Lakpa Sherpa prepares her equipment in Kathmandu, April 13, 2016\. The daughter of a yak herder, Lhakpa Sherpa worked as a porter and kitchen hand on trekking and mountaineering expeditions when she was young, before climbing solo. Generations of men from Nepal's famed Sherpa community have climbed the Himalayas, while their wives and daughters have traditionally kept the home fires burning. But in a sign of changing times, a string of Sherpa women are now breaking records themselves, not only on 8,848-metre (29,029-foot) high Everest but other dangerous peaks. / AFP / PRAKASH MATHEMA / TO GO WITH AFP STORY NEPAL-MOUNTAINEERING-GENDER-QUAKE,FEATURE BY AMMU KANNAMPILLY (Photo credit should read PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images) Prakash Mathema—AFP/Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson May 20, 2016 1:24 PM UTC A [Nepalese woman](http://motto.time.com/4329140/female-everest-climber-lhakpa-sherpa/?iid=sr-link2) just broke her own record by scaling Mount Everest for the seventh time. Lhakpa Sherpa, 42, who lives in Connecticut and works at a 7-Eleven there, reached the peak of the world’s highest mountain on Friday, [the _Guardian_ reports](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/20/mount-everest-nepalese-woman-lhakpa-sherpa-breaks-record-summit-seventh-time?CMP=twt%5Fb-gdnnews). The day’s success broke her own record for the most summits of Everest by a woman. Two Sherpas share the record of 21 ascents by men. Earlier this month, Sherra Gyalgen Sherpa was [the first person](http://time.com/4326689/mount-everest-sherpa-nepal-earthquake/?iid=sr-link6) to ascend Everest after a [fatal avalanche](http://time.com/74140/mount-everest-avalanche-sherpa-joby-ogwyn/) in 2014 and the [devastating earthquake](http://time.com/3923694/mount-everest-nepal-earthquake/) in Nepal in 2015. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4342906/nepal-woman-mount-everest-record/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4342906/nepal-woman-mount-everest-record/"},"headline":"Woman Breaks Record by Climbing Mount Everest a Seventh Time","datePublished":"2016-05-20T13:24:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:02:32.775Z","description":"She broke her own record for the most summits of Everest by a woman","url":"https://time.com/4342906/nepal-woman-mount-everest-record/","keywords":["motto","World","Nepal","records"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3d6255573d1d258/6988940ccf40a87382c4351e/lhakpa-sherpa-everest-record-7.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3d6255573d1d258/6988940ccf40a87382c4351e/lhakpa-sherpa-everest-record-7.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"NEPAL-MOUNTAINEERING-GENDER-QUAKE","caption":"Nepalese mountaineer Lakpa Sherpa prepares her equipment in Kathmandu, April 13, 2016.","creditText":"Prakash Mathema—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4342906/nepal-woman-mount-everest-record/","name":"Woman Breaks Record by Climbing Mount Everest a Seventh Time"}}]}] ```