Nepal, April 19 -- Tashi Lhazom is a youth climate advocate working at the intersection of climate justice, gender, and indigenous rights. Her debut documentary, 'No Monastery, No Village' (2024), has won several awards, including Best Short Documentary at the Nepal-America International Film Festival (2024) and a finalist spot at Banff Mountain Film Festival (2024), one of the world's top mountain film festivals.

In this conversation with the Post's Aarya Chand, Lhazom shares her journey, which weaves language, political awareness and film to highlight the stories left untold.

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My village is in the Limi Valley in Humla, a remote corner of northern Nepal that most people ask, 'Where is that?' Most haven't...