Nepal’s Only Female Helicopter Rescue Pilot Breaking Down Barriers Over Everest

Priya Adhikari navigates dangerous terrain to retrieve injured climbers from some of the world’s tallest peaks: Priya Adhikari is Nepal’s lone female rescue helicopter pilot, risking her life every day to save the mountaineers. At best, she has flown to 6,200 metres above sea level to rescue a climber. The Himalayas have peaks over 8,000 metres, and it continues to give hard times to both experienced and neophyte climbers from around the globe. At least 11 people died during the Everest climbing season this year. Priya’s job entails her to rescue any such climbers whose life is in danger. “If God made the Earth, then he kept heaven for Nepal. See? That’s the heaven there,” says Priya Adhikari as she flies her chopper to the top of the world, ABC reports. According to the pilot she has seen more than enough death and destruction for a lifetime and has no desire whatsoever to climb mountains. Talking about the hurdles in her job, Priya explained, “I face one every day, I face hundreds of thousands of t