of all I like to thank thank you so much
for TEDx choices call to having me here
and thank you so much for giving this
opportunity to share and tell my history
with you so I have some video for you
guys first it was really hard to breath
it was really hard to walk it was really
hard to sleep it was really hard to eat
it was everything
to do her above the earth thousand with
her
it was top of the k2 and that’s why it’s
called like a dance John so it was 2014
26 July we’re so tired and it looks like
the kid to second highest mountain in
the world and it has a such a nickname
like killer mountain savage mountain
most ranchers mountain in the world and
king of the mountain but it is very
special for me it was my dream mountain
and with sri nepali woman decided to
climb this mountain in 2014 to promote
women in adventure and also raise
awareness of climate change technically
it is varied dangers mountain one of one
out of four people died under this
mountain but for us it more challenging
and typical was the other part like
convincing family raising fund for this
client when we said we are going to
climb k2 and muscle people thought we
went crazy and also some of the people
my friends family told me like are you
crazy
you supposed to stay home now you’re
married you have a good chance of end
but we really want you to climb this
mountain and second it was really hard
to raise for him because Nepalese very
small country even a smaller mountain
community and it was very difficult to
convince them what means is climbing
lots of different technical difficulties
here was a rockfall lots of avalanches
it’s called a pyramid hardest part and
this is like a dangerous part of the k2
bottleneck so you can see the big CEREC
hanging over you it can’t collapse any
time without warning and in 2008 there
were like 10 people killed here and it
called like a bottleneck and there’s no
no way to avoid that sarah and finally
2014 26 july were able to climb this
martin in became fresh nepali material
nepali woman and also became first
female team ever and in 60 years
one li9 woman climbed this mountain so
now I’d like to take you back how all my
journey how all this climbing started so
lukla this is main gateway of Everest
region so I was born and grew up in new
glass my childhood was very simple very
typical like a bliss childhood like but
same time like I I was lucky to attend
to school so my school was very far
which is like 40 minutes walk each way
every day and that time we didn’t have
like a DVD any video games any TB any
internet any Facebook anything so huge
we just used to go like hard and like
play outside like swimming in the river
that’s good but it was kind of fun and
but since my mother was running the
restaurant so before school and after
school I have to go and help her and
also look at weekend weekend we had to
and this is the only one my childhood
picture exists somebody forms somewhere
and said it to me so it’s very special
okay so yeah weekend we had to go jungle
to call it the wood to help the parents
so my childhood was very difficult but I
think it it was very fun and I was born
in the Shiva family and when I said like
i’m a loc’d possum lama Sherpa and
people already think that I climb
mountain and they start to ask the poor
like how many times to climb Everest how
many takes how many days to take a climb
Everest but it’s not true not all the
ship or climbs Sherpa is one of the
ethnic city in Nepal and who lives in
the mountain dress is no percentage
people climb and even in groban Sheva
family even raised in the Sherpa family
when I said I wanted to climb mountain
and people like my family friends used
to tell me that like this is not your
job
this is very hard all men cannot do this
especially this is male job so in our
society we women face lots of boundaries
and limitation so there’s a woman should
do this when we shouldn’t do this and AH
we never get support to do like outdoor
things we never get encouraged for this
because they think this is just for male
not for the woman and also motto name is
so as soon as I finished mountaineering
so I started working as a trekking guide
and since my climb my dream was climbing
mountain I started taking mountaineering
courses so what during the training
plate I haven’t seen any woman working
on the mountain as a guide and also what
I noticed is like I have not se seen any
single woman not only instructor in fact
there are like oh maybe one or two women
cherries and what I feel is like it’s
very important to have woman mountain
and it’s instructor as well because in
our society you know a woman has lots of
boundaries and once the woman reach age
of like 1819 their parents immediately
planning to get them married have a kiss
and take her home and also what I feel
is like there will be more warm in
Chinese if there is a more woman
instructor there’s no more parents will
send their daughter when there is like
all the Chinese and mail our instructor
so at the time being I want I decided to
I decided to be like a motoring
instructor and also I decided to I
decided to take muttering as my
profession in 2003 through lots of
training in France in Nepal so I became
first Nepali Martin an instructor in
Nepal and age of 23 so I wanted to prove
that women can also have a whole
profession as a mountaineering guide and
here’s uh some picture so these are some
pictures so most of the training so I I
was just I learned by myself there’s all
men and Tom of skill that time I was
like a most qualified woman guide in
Nepal but being as a woman I had to face
lots of challenges like even I’m is
still full I wouldn’t get higher for a
big
even I’m higher but I would I would be
dedicated for the easier tests for
example I’ll share some of my experience
this is the nun nun P goes to Martin it
was like Nepal Japan join expedition and
I told I told them like I wanted to
climb this mountain with you guys and
that leader openly told me that they
won’t allow any woman in this trip if I
joined so I won’t be allowed to go above
the best camp so I anyhow I can miss
them so I joined with this expedition as
soon as I get in the best camp I started
working so hard you can see that picture
that I was carrying everything I was
cooking I was fixing the rope I was
melting the water I was feeding and I
still remember that when I was coming
back from the top and that litter told
me that oh you’re strong home and so it
felt so good because it was very
important for me to prove myself that
woman also can’t find this mountain then
I started continue to do the training
and one day I was teaching some
mountaineering rescue system for one the
trainees who has been already Everest
like three times and he was telling me
like oh working the system this this
muscle this kind of system not going to
work in Everest every sister different
mountain is hard Mountain and that time
I realized are now I have to go climb
Everest for my experience it was my
dream to climb Everest and then it
became my necessity and this is the
average on the way to and 2007 16 May I
and then then after I start I continue
to do training and climbing and I went
to United State as well so when I went
to United State I feel much more
comfortable there because there’s like
doesn’t matter your mother it doesn’t
matter your daughter-in-law doesn’t
matter your goal so you know you have
like the same opportunity equality so I
started working there as a mountain
guard and teacher and also then I went
to South America and I went to Euro now
I work somewhere in someone in state
Europe and winter in South America in
the past and this is my favorite picture
because I was going in this mountain and
there’s like resolve this all my clients
were all men so I was very happy to see
more women at the mountain and then I
was continuously working on the mountain
and to tell every 2015 I was with my
clients and we climb one peak and I was
anywhere near near Everest base camp and
then suddenly this earthquake occur
so actually we also conquered by the
avalanches but luckily it was just
powder avalanche and we survived then
that woman I thought of these people and
the Everest that moment I forgot about
the earthquake and I what I thought it’s
like I need to help these people and I
went to Everest two hours every
experiment every special features and
was like that it’s completely
demonstrated and 1617 people got killed
some of my friend also last year and it
was very painful for me because 2014
also I saw like a big accident Everest
and this time also I’m seeing this again
it was very hard it was very sad moment
for me and then I went for the rescue
and the next morning I fly back to
Kathmandu
cat model citizen was more Wars
everybody sitting outside under the
table plastic and there is no water
sources it was a very hard life in
Katmandu and around the Katmandu and
then that moment when I came Katmandu I
said I found like my family are safe and
I’m said and what I realized is like I
can’t be killed anywhere my family are
safe I’m safe so I think it has a one
reason to do so then I told my husband
unlike now we have to help these people
and then we immediately start to going
out of Katmandu
you can see this bridge is like a Gorka
then where is the center point near
Center put the whole 600 house collapse
did they didn’t have any place to stay
and the house are more like this
everywhere and then we immediately start
to taking the or earthquake edge and and
place near a Kathmandu like Gore kelabra
there’s a different places we took food
blankets medical and that time it was
very hard for us is like getting stopped
and also taking stuff because there are
so many places in the remote area who
didn’t have a good transportation and
most of that road is like sort by this
landslide at that time so my experience
working with the porter in the mountain
and expedition became very helpful and
that moment i and my other friends many
girls brought it brought the idea of
total mobilization because their time
helicopter was so expensive
and it was very hard to get and then we
start to mobilize the porter and also we
use mules Porter’s and this is the
picture – going LeBrock so it’s kept
from cavalry it it took like 10 hours
drive and – two days walk and were
taking all this blanket map
is using this Porter who is already
affected by earthquakes so the idea was
very simple so we instead of paying the
helicopter we paid this porter to create
the job opportunity for them and also
there is that time when we visited like
a very remote area that must affect it
is like girls woman pregnant women are
alter and then also we started taking
this special kid for the woman and also
were very happy now today were able to
build some temporary shelter for elder
who doesn’t have anyone and who who’s
like a disabled who cannot build shelter
by themselves so this these are a blind
woman and blind man there’s like a 16 of
them so we built a temporary shelter and
I try to help and the Portuguese still
running and then winter we distribute
lots of like a blanket more than life
13,000 blanket and we did like lots of
health camp and we treated more than
4,000 people and we still do this health
and then yeah so when I choose the
mountaineering it was very hard for me
then but now today I am very thankful to
this Martin because mode because of
Martin I am here today sharing
experience with you and because the
mountain I was able to connect the
people from all over the world and I was
able to help when my country and my
people in pain and I am always thankful
this mountain and after 2015
so I was nominated for the National
Geographic adventure of the year so I
got the title in 2016 February and also
some other international so it was a
very special moment for me after having
this getting this title so I’m getting
awesome message even I’m getting message
from Afghanistan and Pakistan the woman
the girl saying that your story is so
inspiring now I’m glad to read your
share your story so I want to follow my
dream no matter what so this moment is
very special for me and so from my
experience and from my work what I
learned and what I really like to give a
message for the youth is like do really
what what you really want to go explore
yourself follow your dream so when I was
when I started when I was dreaming about
mountaineering become mountaineering a
woman mountain guide I had also
self-doubt that I mattered able to do
this because there are so many
challenges I didn’t have any encourage I
didn’t get any guidance but I try at
least and now I I was able to achieve my
goals
so unless you try you won’t know what’s
going to happen so at least you have to
try because there is nothing impossible
thank you so much [Applause]