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Everest Dark
“The mountain is angry”
10.0 / 10• 2025• 1h 30m•NR• English
Documentary
Storyline
Tourists line up at the foot of Mount Everest to climb the mythological mountain – and to tell everyone else about the feat. For the same reason, Mount Everest has become a graveyard full of the frozen corpses of fallen mountaineers. But the story of the world’s highest mountain also has another, overlooked side: the local one. For around the huge mountain between Nepal and Tibet lives a local population with their own worldview, which is very different from the one Western tourists arrive with. A world of mountain gods that demands respect for nature. To appease the angry mountain gods, the famous Nepalese mountaineer and national hero, Mingma Tsiri Sherpa, risks everything to return to Mount Everest one last time to retrieve a body and appease the sacred mountain.
Cast & Crew
Jaswant Dev Shrestha
Narrator(voice)
LeadPF
Pem Futi Sherpa
Self
NT
Nim Tsiri Sherpa
Self
NT
Nima Temba Sherpa
Self
MT
Mingma Tsiri Sherpa
Self
Pasang Tenzing Sherpa
Self
CF
Chhiring Futi Sherpa
Self
What People Are Saying
5.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Jereme Watt's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
5.0
“Every frame feels alive. Everest Dark is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
