Where was Everest filmed?
2015 film, directed by Baltasar Kormákur.
- Nepal
The story is set in Nepal, so the filming stayed close to the setting.
Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed
- Set in
- Nepal; Mount Everest
- Filmed in
- Nepal
- Distance
- About 178 miles (287 km) between Mount Everest and the nearest filming location.
About Everest
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- Released
- 2015
- Director
- Baltasar Kormákur
- Cast
- Jason ClarkeJosh BrolinJohn HawkesRobin WrightEmily WatsonKeira KnightleySam WorthingtonJake GyllenhaalMichael KellyThomas M. Wright
- Genre
- ThrillerDisasterAdventureSurvivalAction
- Based on
- 1996 Mount Everest disaster
The story
A month earlier in New Zealand, Rob says goodbye to his pregnant wife Jan, promising he will be home for the birth.
Rob tells him to return to base camp if his condition does not improve in a half-hour.
Rob reluctantly agrees and they reach the summit two hours later, well past the safe return time.
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