Sherpa *** (2015) – Movie Review

Writer-director Jennifer Peedom’s riveting documentary looks at the plight of the brave but increasingly desperate local sherpas as big business, tourism and capitalists take over Mount Everest. It seems to air all the facts in a fair and challenging kind of way, letting everyone concerned speak for themselves.

It’s not a happy story, far, far from it, but it is a vital one, told provocatively with plenty of remarkable footage, old and new. It leaves it up to everybody to make their own conclusions, but it’s pretty obvious that people should stop climbing the mountain and leave the local people in peace to live their lives in a dignified, proper, natural way. Surely enough people are dead now as a result of the wish to climb a treacherously dangerous mountain.

© Derek Winnert 2015 Movie Review

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