Transcript (en)

Well, I had a kind of personal history because I worked with Jennifer Petum, the director, ten years before this movie was made on her documentaries. She's made a lot of documentaries, and many of them have to do with nature and mountaineering. I narrated two documentaries. One was called Mountain, and one was called River. And while I worked with her, I liked her a great deal. And she mentioned this project. It was a passion project for her, and she was the right person to do it because she knows the Sherpa community. She's a mountain person. She had lots of connection to it, and she was very determined to tell this story more from Tenzing Norgay's point of view. He's put at the center. And that all sounded attractive, and I said, listen, if you ever get it together, I'd love to do something. But I thought it would probably be some English official in, you know, in Kathmandu or something like that. But then when she said, actually, you'll be the head of the expedition and you'll be climbing, I said, great. Because when you do something that has such a physical element, I always enjoy that. It's always an adventure and always a very concrete way to enter into the pretending and entering into the world that you're creating.