Behold the breathtaking beauty of Mount Everest as you‘ve never seen it before – through the eyes of the Sherpa people who worship the mountain as Chomolungma, the sacred Mother Goddess of the World.
In the seven decades since Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay first summited the world’s highest peak, Everest has become a frozen graveyard, with over 200 bodies trapped in ice & snow – one third of them Sherpas. As climate change reveals the location of some of the previously missing human remains, Nepalese national hero Mingma Tsiri Sherpa – considered one of the best high-altitude climbers of all time – leads an elite team of fellow Sherpas into the Death Zone, repeatedly risking their lives to sanctify the mountain by retrieving one body at a time, so that they can be repatriated and laid to rest.
Featuring spectacular aerial cinematography & reverential respect for a distinctly non-European worldview, don’t miss this jaw-dropping, award-winning film from Vancouver filmmaker Jereme Watt.
Co-presented by Salt Spring Search and Rescue
