First ascent of Lhotse (female)
- Who
- Chantal Mauduit
- What
- First
- Where
- China
- When
- 10 May 1996
The first woman to climb Lhotse (8,516 metres; 27,939 ft) in the Everest massif is Chantal Mauduit (France), who made her ascent, solo and without bottled oxygen, on 10 May 1996.
Tragically, Mauduit died during a climb of Dhaulagiri on 11 May 1998.