This record-breaking Everest climber has reached the summit nine times. She makes $11.50 per hour washing dishes at Whole Foods.

• Lhakpa Sherpa holds the women's world record for Mount Everest summits.
• She's reached the peak nine times, and says she's readying to complete trek number 10 in 2019.
• For the 10 months of the year when she's not guiding people up the world's tallest mountain, Sherpa washes dishes at a Whole Foods in Connecticut and takes care of her two youngest children.

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Lhakpa Sherpa has climbed to the top of Mount Everest a record-breaking nine times. That's more summits of the world's highest peak than any other woman, dead or alive.

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