[1] Dawa Yangzum started her professional mountain climbing in 2009 with Yala Peak marking her first summit.

She became one of the iconic Nepali mountain climbers in the history after climbing Mount Everest in 2012.

[1][3] In March 2019, she signed a professional agreement with a US outdoor recreation product company, making her one of the few professional Nepali mountaineers to be paid as an athlete by a major western company.

[4] Dawa Yangzum has climbed Everest several times[5] and she became the first female Nepali woman to summit the fifth highest peak Makalu on 29 May 2019.

[4]She also became the first woman to reach the true summit of Manaslu in autumn 2021.