Each spring, over eight hundred climbers attempt to reach the
summit of Mount Everest. The conditions are challenging, and
without warning can become life-threatening. Some make it to the
top of what is considered the worlds most majestic mountain, but
others are not so lucky, and in the attempt to reach the elusive
summit, many more have tragically lost their lives. Not all are
recovered, their bodies left to the mountain. In the spring of
2010, 18,000 feet above sea level, documentary filmmaker Dianne
Whelan immersed herself in the challenging and captivating world of
base camp on Mount Everest. In this personal and eye-opening
expose, Whelan shares gripping stories of Maoist rebels, avalanches
and dead bodies surfacing out of a dying glacier. From her
perspective at base camp Whelan interviews climbers, doctors and
Sherpas all living for months on end in the belly of the mountain
as they wait for a weather window to summit the top of the world.
Woven into the personal stories of these climbers is the
devastating truth of the human impact on the mountain and the eerie
and unforeseen effects of climate change. Experts believe there are
over 250 bodies buried on the path from base camp to the peak of
Mount Everest. With the glacier melting and moving at over four
inches a day, the toll of the human desire to conquer the mountain
is slowly and irreversibly surfacing at base camp.
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