BBCNEWS The Firing Line November 21, 2021 20:41:00
Who struggle to survive. this intimate film by rojita adhikari and sreya banerjee finds out how the sherpa widows are defying tradition to become bread winners and to conquer the world's highest mountain. she knows the pain and suffering that everest can inflict. her husband died in a climbing accident in 2007. after years of financial struggles, she's decided to follow in his footsteps. mountaineering is very much still a male domain. generations of sherpa men have been climbing and leading expeditions and have become world renowned in theirfield, but women have rarely been encouraged to take...