The Ghosts Above

Production Company
Expedition Studios
Client
Sony and National Geographic
Editor
Jay Macmillan
Director
Jay Macmillan, Renan Ozturk, and Taylor Rees
Producer
Curt Morgan
Runtime
36 minutes 24 seconds
Awards

Best Mountain Film - Kendal Mountain Film Festival - 2020

Finalist - Telluride Mountain Film Festival - 2020

Finalist - Banff Mountain Film Festival - 2020

Finalist - VIMFF Fall Series - 2020

This short documentary produced in collaboration with Sony Alpha Films and National Geographic explores the past and present of climbing on Mt. Everest, and looks more deeply into the changing dynamic between high-altitude workers and Western mountain climbers.

Renan, who narrates the film from his own perspective, summited Mt. Everest in 2019 on an expedition that sought to solve the oldest mystery in Himalayan climbing – could George Mallory and Sandy Irvine have actually reached the summit of Everest nearly 30 years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay? As Renan searches for the final resting place of Sandy Irvine, he reflects upon the history of Everest expeditions, the fraught relationship between indigenous guides and expeditioners, the rigors of high-alpine mountaineering and the commercialization of this sacred mountain.

Production Company
Expedition Studios
Client
Sony and National Geographic
Editor
Jay Macmillan
Director
Jay Macmillan, Renan Ozturk, and Taylor Rees
Producer
Curt Morgan
Runtime
36 minutes 24 seconds
Awards

Best Mountain Film - Kendal Mountain Film Festival - 2020

Finalist - Telluride Mountain Film Festival - 2020

Finalist - Banff Mountain Film Festival - 2020

Finalist - VIMFF Fall Series - 2020

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