The past year was robust with incredible reporting on women’s stories. Here are some of the best longreads of 2016 that took us in-depth into women’s lives.
Grayson Schaffer | Outside Magazine | May 10, 2016
Lhakpa Sherpa has climbed Everest more than any other woman, but few people know her name. Part of the reason has been the media’s legacy of diminishing the accomplishments of Sherpa climbers, but also: “since 2004, she has been too frightened to speak to reporters.” That’s the year she says she was assaulted by her ex-husband, Everest summiter George Dijmarescu.
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Jennifer Percy | New York Times | Aug. 2, 2016
Five years after a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, a husband is still searching the sea for his missing wife, joined by a father looking for his daughter.
