Kumu Documentary: Everest Dark
Dir Jereme Watt
Canada 2025, 90 min
In English
Introduction by Katrin Merisalu, an Estonian alpinist and filmmaker who became the first Estonian woman to summit an 8,000-meter peak
The famed Nepalese mountaineer Mingma Tsiri Sherpa risks everything to appease the gods of Everest and bring home a fallen climber’s body.
Once a symbol of the limits of human adventure and achievement, Mount Everest has become the world’s highest graveyard, with over 300 climbers lost on its slopes, one-third of them Sherpa.
To appease the angry mountain gods, the famed Nepalese mountaineer and national hero Mingma Tsiri Sherpa risks everything to return to Everest’s “Death Zone” one last time and attempt to recover the body of a fallen climber.
The Oscar-nominated executive producer Ina Fichman (Fire of Love) teams up with the veteran producer Merit Jensen Carr, the writer/director/producer Jereme Watt, and his partner, the co-creator and writer/producer Michael Bodnarchuk to tell the extraordinary story of Mingma Tsiri Sherpa in Everest Dark. The film pulls no punches as it explores the profound impacts of the climbing industry on both Mount Everest and the Sherpa people, examining their culture, lives and future.
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