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The Wall of Shadows (2020) on Netflix

NR20201h 34mDocumentary

A Sherpa family breaks a taboo on Kumbhakarna, the holiest mountain, to pay for their son's schooling. They join a Western expedition on the East Wall, a face no climber has reached.

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Kumbhakarna lies in the Himalaya and is the holiest of mountains for the Sherpa people, for whom climbing it is a taboo. A Sherpa family breaks that taboo so that money from a Himalayan expedition can pay for their son's education and cut the boy from their tradition. The family accompanies a Western expedition whose members count among the world's leading alpinists. Those climbers plan to take on the East Wall of the mountain. No climber has ever climbed that face before. The young Sherpa boy and an experienced mountaineer from the West meet at the foot of the sacred mountain.

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