text:  After a ten-year hiatus, Lakpa decided to return to Everest. With six summits already under her belt, she was a kind of underground legend in parts of the climbing community, and some found it incredible that the most successful female Everest climber of all time had been living so quietly in Connecticut all this time. The year after her divorce was finalized, Lakpa arranged a trip to Nepal, and with her Nepalese family, who work in the climbing business,