Mount Everest in popular culture

Film poster for the 1952 Swiss documentary

This is a list of media content related to Mount Everest, the Earth's highest mountain, with an elevation of 8,848 metres (29,029 ft) above sea level. Mount Everest was identified as such in the 19th century as a result of a geographical survey conducted by the British Empire. A century later it was climbed, after some infamous attempts in the preceding decades.

During the 20th and 21st centuries, the notoriety of Mount Everest increased and it became a common subject of novels and films, often focusing on particular expeditions or events at the mountain. For example, the 1998 film Everest was the highest grossing IMAX film up to that time, and some novels in the genre have sold millions of copies.

Books

Non-fiction

Fiction

• The Summit of the Gods (2000–2003 manga)
• Everest trilogy ("The Contest", "The Climb", and "The Summit"), Gordon Korman (2002)
• Peak, Roland Smith (2007)
• Paths of Glory, Jeffrey Archer (2009)
• The Abominable, Dan Simmons (2013)
• Dixon, Descending, Karen Outen (2024)

Film and television

Fiction/Dramatizations

Expedition Everest, a roller coaster at Disney's Animal Kingdom

A filmer on the North Col in 1922^[26]

• Everest (2015)
• Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (1997 TV movie)
• Khangri: The Mountain (1996 Nepalese film)
• Lost on Everest (1998 TV episode)^[27]
• Mallory's Tragedy on Mount Everest (1954 TV episode)^[28]
• Miracle on Everest (2007)^[29]
• Our Everest Challenge (TV movie)^[30]
• Summit of Dreams (1998)
• Storm Over Everest (2008 TV episode)^[31]
• Monty Python's Flying Circus, "The All-England Summarize Proust Competition," the skit: "Everest Climbed by Hairdressers" (1972 TV episode)^[32]
• The Climb (2017)^[33]
• Touch the Top of the World (2006 TV movie)^[34]
• Wings Over Everest (2019)^[35]

Other

• Expedition Everest, a roller coaster at Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park in Florida, and the most expensive roller coaster ever built at the time
• Mount Everest webcam, the world's highest live webcam, installed near the mountain in 2011
• Everest, a 2000 computer game^[36]
• Everest VR, a video game with virtual reality support based on the Unreal 4 game engine^[37][38]
• Mount Everest, a board game^[39]

References

1. Ratcliffe, Graham (2013). A day to die for : 1996 : Everest's worst disaster : one survivor's personal journey to uncover the truth. Edinburgh. ISBN 9781780576411.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
2. "A Life on the Edge". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-01-23.
3. "After the Wind by Lou Kasischke". www.afterthewind.com. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
4. "Ascent into Hell". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved Oct 28, 2020.
5. "Dark Summit". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-01-23.
6. "The seven most riveting reads about Mount Everest". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
7. "Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis – review". the Guardian. Sep 24, 2011. Retrieved Oct 28, 2020.
8. Free to Decide Publishing, ISBN 978-0-620-24782-5
9. "The seven most riveting reads about Mount Everest". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2019-01-23.
10. Romero, Jordan (May 6, 2014). No Summit out of Sight. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781481432764. Retrieved Oct 28, 2020 – via www.simonandschuster.com.
11. "The Acorn - Youngest climber of the Seven Summits to speak in T.O." Archived from the original on 2016-05-08. Retrieved 2019-01-23.
12. Evans, Jeremy (2021). See You Tomorrow: The Disappear. Falcon. ISBN 978-1-4930-5303-2.
13. "BOOK". Dom Faulkner. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
14. "The Storms - Mike Trueman". Vertebrate Publishing. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
15. Many Everests: An Inspiring Journey of Transforming Dreams Into Reality. ASIN 9386141329.
16. "40 Days at Base Camp (Documentary)". IMDb. 2011. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
17. "Death Zone: Cleaning Mount Everest". IMDb. 2016. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
18. Ruggiero, Adam (2016-10-26). "'Everest Air' Chronicles First-Of-Its-Kind Rescue Team". GearJunkie. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
19. Everest: The Death Zone, retrieved 2017-05-28
20. "Galahad of Everest". The Radio Times. 28 November 1991. p. 72.
21. "World T.E.A.M. Sports". 2010-09-16. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
22. Keeper of the Mountains, 2013, retrieved 2017-05-28
23. "MOUNT EVEREST 1952". BFI. 1952. Archived from the original on October 29, 2020. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
24. "Alpha Video - The Conquest of Everest". Retrieved 2014-01-30.
25. Ultimate Survival: Everest, 2004, retrieved 2017-05-28
26. Davis (2012), p. 484. sfnp error: no target: CITEREFDavis2012 (help)
27. "NOVA Online | Lost on Everest". www.pbs.org. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
28. "You Are There" Mallory's Tragedy on Mount Everest (TV Episode 1954), retrieved 2017-05-28
29. Kuipers, Richard (2015-07-13). "Film Review: 'Sherpa'". Variety. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
30. Seale, Jack (2018-08-30). "Our Everest Challenge review – Ben Fogle, Victoria Pendleton and some vertiginous cliches". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-01-23.
31. "Frontline" Storm Over Everest (TV Episode 2008), retrieved 2017-05-28
32. "Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Complete Episode Guide Season 3". montycasinos.com. Retrieved 2021-12-11.
33. Brady, Tara (28 December 2017). "The Climb review: a big-hearted crowd-pleaser in the name of love". Irish Times. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
34. Touch the Top of the World (TV Movie 2006), retrieved 2017-05-28
35. "Merinews.com". www.merinews.com. Retrieved Oct 28, 2020.
36. "Everest for Windows (2000)". MobyGames.
37. "Visually Stunning EVEREST VR is Now Available on Playstation VR". Nerdist. 2017-10-03. Retrieved 2019-01-24.
38. Evangelho, Jason. "The 'Everest VR' Experience On HTC Vive Is So Terrifying I Couldn't Even Finish It". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-01-24.
39. gschloesser (2015-12-07). "Scaling the Mountains". The Opinionated Gamers. Retrieved 2019-01-24.

External links

• List of books about Mount Everest by USA Today
• More Everest books
• Mount Everest books from GoodReads