Mount Everest is no fairy tale. It has become the highest graveyard on the planet. Since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first summited Everest in 1953, more than 6,000 people have reached the peak with over 300 climbers dying in the attempt. To this day, around 200 bodies remain abandoned on the mountain, frozen in ice and snow. Tragically, one-third of those bodies are Sherpa.
Revered in Nepal as a national hero, Mingma Tsiri Sherpa stands among the best high-altitude climbers of all time. Over the years, he has led numerous rescue missions on Everest, sadly witnessing many climbers’ final moments while surviving through many close calls himself. After the 2015 earthquake killed 21 people at Base Camp and nearly 9,000 others across Nepal, God visited Mingma in a haunting dream stating if he tried to summit Everest again, he would die there. Despite being two summits away from a world record, Mingma swore off climbing forever. But when 15 more climbers perish in traffic jams high on the mountain in 2019, Mingma makes a fateful decision. The mountain has been desecrated. The mountain gods are angry. And the only way to appease them is to embark on a life-threatening mission with a small team of elite Sherpa climbers and attempt to recover a body from Everest’s unpredictable and hostile Death Zone.
Join producer Merit Jensen Carr, producer/writer Michael Bodnarchuk and film subject Mingma Tsiri Sherpa for a special post-screening discussion.
Promotional Partner: Planet in Focus and Rock On Climbing
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