11 Facts About Lamu Amatya

Lamu Amatya received her nursing degree in 1954 and started working in 1956.

Lamu Amatya's father Sirdar Karma 'Paul' Palden was a mountaineer.

Lamu Amatya was the porter and interpreter of the mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine during the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition.

Lamu Amatya received her nursing degree from Kolkata Medical College in 1954.

Lamu Amatya met her future husband, Bhubaneswar Amatya, in Kolkata, while she was training as a nurse.

One day he had gone to Calcutta Medical College for his leg treatment, there he met Lamu Amatya and fell in love with her.

Lamu Amatya asked her to open a nursing school in Kathmandu.

So, on 13 March 1956, Lamu Amatya opened the first ever nursing school in Nepal by renting a building in Chhetrapati.

Yogeshwar Amatya, Lamu Amatya's son received the official certificate on her behalf.

Lamu Amatya died on 1 June 2012, due to Alzheimer's disease.

Lamu Amatya's son Yogeshwar Amatya is a popular Nepali singer.