[6] On May 18, 2000 she became the first Nepali woman to summit Mount Everest and survive (see also Pasang Lhamu Sherpa).
[12] That year they hosted a presentation about their 2007 Everest trip, with donations taken for Quaker Lane Cooperative Nursery School.
[25] On 24 April 2023 Lhakpa won India's prestigious Tenzing Norgay National Adventure award.
[26][27] However, in interviews she noted her desire for the mountain, a condition previously seen in such climbers as George Mallory and Yuichiro Miura according to U.K. media outlet The Daily Telegraph.
[18][13] After marriage, she left her permanent residence in Nepal and moved to US where Gheorghe worked in construction.
[28] In 2012 when Dijmărescu became violent, and beat Lhakpa Sherpa to the point she was taken to the emergency room; a hospital social worker placed her and her two girls in a local shelter where they stayed for eight months.
[27] Her little sister Ming reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 22, 2003 when she was 15 years old (she climbed with Lhakpa and Gelu),[11] thus becoming the youngest person known to have summited Mount Everest (see also Temba Tsheri and Jordan Romero).
[29][30] Her brother is Mingma Gelu Sherpa and is noted to have reached the summit of Mount Everest eight times by 2016.
[31] According to Michael Kodas, a journalist present during the expedition, Dijmărescu, "hook[ed] a blow with his right hand to the side of his wife's head.