This year’s People’s Choice award recipient turns all the adventure stereotypes upside down. Mountaineer Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita, 31, grew up in Lukla, #Nepal, in the shadow of Everest. By the time she was 15, she’d lost both her parents and was left to care for her six-year-old sister in a culture lacking opportunities for women. Still, she made her way up the world’s tallest peaks (K2 and Everest, to name a few) and has continued to work tirelessly to serve the disadvantaged in the aftermath of the April 2015 earthquake in Nepal.
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