In the Shadow of Everest Documentary Brock Graham & Zev Tambor, Directors (my role: co-director and editor) In 2001, Tom Wool traveled to the Rongbuk Valley with mountaineer Helga Hengge to document the lives of the people living in the shadow of Everest. The Rongbuk Valley stretches north from the base of Mount Everest to the Tibetan Plateau. It is home to about 3,000 people dispersed amongst 12 or so villages. At the time there was no road, just a dirt track leading from the Friendship Highway to the north. In 2008, the Olympic torch came over Mount Everest for the Beijing Olympic Games. By this time the Chinese had built a road, all the way from the Friendship Highway through the valley to Everest Base Camp, at the foot of the Rongbuk glacier. Now, everything would change...

In the Shadow of Everest

Documentary

Brock Graham & Zev Tambor, Directors

(my role: co-director and editor)

In 2001, Tom Wool traveled to the Rongbuk Valley with mountaineer Helga Hengge to document the lives of the people living in the shadow of Everest. The Rongbuk Valley stretches north from the base of Mount Everest to the Tibetan Plateau. It is home to about 3,000 people dispersed amongst 12 or so villages. At the time there was no road, just a dirt track leading from the Friendship Highway to the north.

In 2008, the Olympic torch came over Mount Everest for the Beijing Olympic Games. By this time the Chinese had built a road, all the way from the Friendship Highway through the valley to Everest Base Camp, at the foot of the Rongbuk glacier. Now, everything would change...