'Cinema is full of representations of the landscape that inspire terror. The land is a scary place - it is to be feared or conquered. Mount Everest is that most perilous and conquerable landform, inspiring its own canon of mountaineering films. Jennifer Peedom's Sherpa is the most recent of that canon: it is a climbing film, an Australian film, and a documentary about the deadliest day in Everest's history.' (Publication abstract)