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Guiding Himalayan treks, Nepali woman scales mountains of social taboos

by Pat Coate | October 02, 2007
"People can say what they want. I have to do it. I have to make a different kind of society for Nepali women."
- Kamala Biswakarma, women's rights trailblazer

Pokhara, Nepal - Kamala Biswakarma wears the pants in her family.

To work in a male-dominated industry, with a salary equal to "high government officials," is almost unheard of for women in most parts of Nepal.

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