Pasang chronicles Pasang Lhamu Sherpaโs tragic and inspiring journey to become the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest in 1993. As an uneducated, indigenous woman and a Buddhist in a Hindu kingdom, Pasangโs dream to scale the legendary mountain pits her against family, foreign climbers, her own government and nature itself. Her determined pursuit of Everest plays out within the context of her nationโs quest for democracy and the emergence of the commercial climbing industry. As told by the Nepalese who knew her, by some of the worldโs most notable alpinists and by Pasang herself, her historic quest would transfix her country and uplift a new generationโs belief in its possibilities.