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IMDb rating 7.6
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Critic Patrick Peters
rated 8

...a spectacular, intimate and politically provocative exposé of the dangers, racial tensions and harsh economic realities on the world's highest mountain.

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Critic Luke Buckmaster
rated 8

...likely the most majestic-looking industrial dispute documentary ever made...

Read full review at The Guardian
Critic Mark Kermode
rated 8

For all its awe-inspiring scenery, this is a story of exploited labour’s struggle for power, of workers taking control of their workplace.

Read full review at The Guardian

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Sherpa is a documentary that tells the untold story of the Himalayan guides who risk everything to support climbers on Mount Everest. Filmed during the 2014 climbing season, the film captures the tragic event when a huge block of ice crashed down onto the climbing route, killing 16 Sherpas. The documentary explores the Sherpa culture and their spiritual relationship with the mountain, as well as the heavy work and risks they take to make the climb possible for foreign climbers. After the tragedy, the film shifts its focus to the differing perspectives and understandings of the various groups, and how the Sherpas stage a protest meeting to demand better working conditions. The film features archival footage of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, and includes interviews with Norgay's children.

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