How Dawa Yangzum Sherpa’s last mountain became her hardest one
She left the Rolwaling Valley at 13 with a porter’s load on her back. Twenty years later, one avalanche-scarred peak in Tibet stood between her and a first no Nepali woman had ever claimed. On the morning of October 7, 2023, roughly 50 climbers were spread across the slopes of Shishapangma, a 26,335-foot (8,027-meter) peak that stands entirely inside Tibet.…