Death Zone: Cleaning Mount Everest (2018) Poster

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8/10
A eye opening truth about the ego and waste of the world
dsb-0214231 May 2022
Want to get the thrill of climbing Everest ? Paying HUGE amounts of money to do it?

The government and the climbing companies should contribute a portion of their profits to the cleaning of this area. Bodies (and body parts) should be allowed by the government to be removed and cremated. Shame on the egos involved.
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7/10
Over dramatic
e_gareth4 December 2019
Great footage, amazing what they are trying to do. Hated how dramatic they tried to make it. I think anyone knowing a little about climbing Everest would know how reliant climbers are on Sherps and how difficult it is. To me this painted what they do in a less favorable light. They are the heroes of the mountain.this treats the audience like idiots just show what it is. Climbing Everest is dramatic enough. Don't edit and over narate. No need!
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6/10
Sherpas are cool. Contrived mission.
trbilbro-5-109775 April 2019
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Hard not to admire the Sherpa and the desire to clean up a sacred place for them, but in practical terms they risked their lives to retrieve dead bodies and trash for money. The effect on the water supply is completely overstated, and the global warming message was clearly coached. For better or for worse these men risk their lives to get rich foreigners up and down the mountain, and this was another such mission. RIP Namgyal Sherpa who died several years after this film on another expedition.
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6/10
Good film spoiled by stupid narrative
ibrox-618988 January 2022
Enjoyed the movie and agree that cleaning up the rubbish on the mountain is essential but trying to make out removing iced dead bodies off the mountain is going to make the water cleaner and help global warming I don't think even wee Greta Thunberg would go that far.
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10/10
God bless these beautiful people
The_Boxing_Cat5 March 2019
After watching this film I have lost all respect for people who have touted having made the summit. In the future, ALL climbers should be heavily taxed and all their gear should be weighed- if they leave anything on the mountain, then they should be heavily fined in addition.

Excellent film.
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7/10
Why the Climate Change Narrative?
ASDampf9 January 2021
This film could've been one of the better stories ever told about Everest if they just stuck to the Sherpas vs pushing the climate change agenda. It feels extremely messy at times, and would've played out better if they had just showed the incredible journey and danger that is these people's lives. Sherpas have evolved to have better tolerances to high altitudes, stemming from their ancestors living in Nepal at an altitude of 8,000+ feet. There's no mention of that, and the focus instead is on "black carbon" or "changing weather patterns". 7/10 for me, good idea but the film can't decide if it wants to talk about the Sherpas or climate change. It's pretty clear in the film the Sherpas have no idea what the Western world views as a problem, and why should they? They travel on foot with yaks. Would imagine their carbon footprint is better than that of a 5 year old.
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9/10
Great film. Where's the follow-up?
davidw-423 February 2021
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Considering it was filmed by amateur "cinematographers" with Go-Pros, some of the vistas are absolutely stunning! Filmed in 2010 but released in 2018? Except for the sad loss of two participants-what has been happening? Is this an annual event? Has any other group performed a similar undertaking? Has the Nepalese government instituted a GI-GO approach to climbing Everest? Where's the corporate sponsorship to fund this, ad infinitum? How many more of the 150 bodies have been brought down? A must-watch, to be sure, but more follow-up, considering an 8 year delay, would've been appreciated.
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10/10
Fantastic
samir-0657730 January 2022
A must watch. The work of the Sherpa's is incredible and cannot be overstated. I hope further western expeditions to Everest learn from this documentary and clean up their act to ensure anything they take on to Everest is brought back down safely and disposed of correctly.
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9/10
Disgusted
UrbanElysium17 March 2021
I'm not a climber, had no previous concept of anything related to mountain climbing until I saw this. I feel so bad for the Sherpas and the natives who have to deal with this crap that it's nauseating! I've seen a couple of documentaries about Mount Everest but they didn't touch any of these things and I kind of consider that to be sacrilege because without the Sherpas and people monitoring everything then these climbers would be even more screwed. As far as I'm concerned nobody has any business on this mountain except the natives that ship is in the scientists everyone else needs to stay OFF!!!!! Egotism to climb- shameful!
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10/10
Sherpa are amazing!
lallyam6 February 2021
Great documentary showing the pollution caused by Everest expeditions, the Sherpa are such hardworking people.
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10/10
It was a great experience
purnasan7 August 2023
Alongside with casting team it was overall a great experience. Thankyou everyone for your acknowledgment on our work of blood, sweat and tears including the care for nature awareness save snow, save lives. We sherpas are always represented for the courage but due to conscience I am humbled for the dead lives our team faced. From my heart I would like to thank director and Nepal Investment as well as team Friends of Save the Himalayas for the organize it was an incredible opportunity. Till this day i have summited it for the thrice times also with my 16 y/old son every time of these moments I carry the will of my deceased friend Namgyal Sherpa.

Thank you all for your love for this film!
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10/10
Is recovering bodies a first world issue?
terri-13314 December 2021
The Sherpas are amazing... they are holy and beautiful. It's heartbreaking that they have to sell out their sacred mountain to make a living, and the rich Westerners who pay up to $100,000 for a climb are deplorable for leaving their garbage behind.

However, dead bodies are NOT garbage. They are holy too, and it's an honor for them to be "buried" on the mountain. The sherpas understand this, because they are Buddhists and are able to let go of the physical form. But some rich white folks paid these sherpas to recover the bodies of their dead because they are so attached to the body. It must have been so weird for these beautiful Buddhist sherpas to reconicle this with their own spiritual perspectives.
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