Everest Dark

Name: Everest Dark
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025
Duration: 88 min

Jereme Watt20251h 28mDocumentary

Why we chose it

Himalayan climber Mingma Tsiri Sherpa has stood on top of Everest nineteen times and swore he never would again. But he believes the mountain is angry and won’t calm down while climbers’ bodies still lie on it, so he’s going up once more. This time, the summit isn’t the goal.

Synopsis

It’s the middle of the season on Everest, and a line of headlamps creeps towards the top as hundreds of clients on commercial expeditions queue for the summit. Above 8,000 metres, the bodies of climbers from earlier expeditions lie in the snow where no one ever carried them down. Nepali guides reach one of them with ropes and ice axes, and it takes hours to chip the frozen body out of the ice. Yet the hardest part only begins on the way down.