Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
Netflix | Documentary | 2024
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa, directed by Lucy Walker, tells the remarkable story of Lhakpa Sherpa who, as a girl denied an education, concealed her gender to work in the mountains. She became the first Nepali woman to summit Everest before immigrating to the US where she's raised children as a single mother and climbs in pursuit of a better life. Netflix acquired worldwide rights to Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa out of the 2023 Toronto Film Festival, and the documentary will stream globally in 2024.
Director: Lucy Walker
With: Lhakpa Sherpa, Nima Sherpa, Sunny Dijmarescu, Shiny Dijmarescu
Production Companies: SKG, OBB Pictures, and Avocados and Coconuts
Producers: Charlie Corwin, Michael D. Ratner, Miranda Sherman, Dalia Burde, Christopher Newman
EPs: Sidney Kimmell, Brian Kornreich, Jo Henriquez, Scott Ratner, Amani King, Lucy Walker
DP: Devin Whetstone
High altitude cinematographer: Matthew Irving
Editors: Tyler Temple Higgins, Yaniv Elani, Davon Ramos
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa, directed by Lucy Walker, tells the remarkable story of Lhakpa Sherpa who, as a girl denied an education, concealed her gender to work in the mountains. She became the first Nepali woman to summit Everest before immigrating to the US where she's raised children as a single mother and climbs in pursuit of a better life. Netflix acquired worldwide rights to Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa out of the 2023 Toronto Film Festival, and the documentary will stream globally in 2024.
Director: Lucy Walker
With: Lhakpa Sherpa, Nima Sherpa, Sunny Dijmarescu, Shiny Dijmarescu
Production Companies: SKG, OBB Pictures, and Avocados and Coconuts
Producers: Charlie Corwin, Michael D. Ratner, Miranda Sherman, Dalia Burde, Christopher Newman
EPs: Sidney Kimmell, Brian Kornreich, Jo Henriquez, Scott Ratner, Amani King, Lucy Walker
DP: Devin Whetstone
High altitude cinematographer: Matthew Irving
Editors: Tyler Temple Higgins, Yaniv Elani, Davon Ramos
Director: Lucy Walker
With: Lhakpa Sherpa, Nima Sherpa, Sunny Dijmarescu, Shiny Dijmarescu
Production Companies: SKG, OBB Pictures, and Avocados and Coconuts
Producers: Charlie Corwin, Michael D. Ratner, Miranda Sherman, Dalia Burde, Christopher Newman
EPs: Sidney Kimmell, Brian Kornreich, Jo Henriquez, Scott Ratner, Amani King, Lucy Walker
DP: Devin Whetstone
High altitude cinematographer: Matthew Irving
Editors: Tyler Temple Higgins, Yaniv Elani, Davon Ramos
Director: Lucy Walker
With: Lhakpa Sherpa, Nima Sherpa, Sunny Dijmarescu, Shiny Dijmarescu
Production Companies: SKG, OBB Pictures, and Avocados and Coconuts
Producers: Charlie Corwin, Michael D. Ratner, Miranda Sherman, Dalia Burde, Christopher Newman
EPs: Sidney Kimmell, Brian Kornreich, Jo Henriquez, Scott Ratner, Amani King, Lucy Walker
DP: Devin Whetstone
High altitude cinematographer: Matthew Irving
Editors: Tyler Temple Higgins, Yaniv Elani, Davon Ramos
Director: Lucy Walker
With: Lhakpa Sherpa, Nima Sherpa, Sunny Dijmarescu, Shiny Dijmarescu
Production Companies: SKG, OBB Pictures, and Avocados and Coconuts
Producers: Charlie Corwin, Michael D. Ratner, Miranda Sherman, Dalia Burde, Christopher Newman
EPs: Sidney Kimmell, Brian Kornreich, Jo Henriquez, Scott Ratner, Amani King, Lucy Walker
DP: Devin Whetstone
High altitude cinematographer: Matthew Irving
Editors: Tyler Temple Higgins, Yaniv Elani, Davon Ramos