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Apple's Tenzing reaches cinemas on 9 October, Apple TV on 16 October

Featured18 Sept 20265 min read

Apple Original Films has confirmed that Tenzing, a drama about Tenzing Norgay and the 1953 first ascent of Everest, opens in select cinemas on 9 October 2026 and streams globally on Apple TV from 16 October. Jennifer Peedom directs, with Genden Phuntsok as Tenzing and Tom Hiddleston as Edmund Hillary. Apple released the trailer on 16 September. Here is what the studio has confirmed about the cast, the crew and the story the film tells.

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Into thin air, 30 years later

9 Sept 202611 min read

Thirty years after the 1996 Everest disaster, Jon Krakauer's account of it remains one of the most argued-about books in adventure writing. In a National Geographic interview for the anniversary, he talks about what the disaster cost him, where he stands on the questions the book raised, and what he makes of Everest's commercialisation.

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The icefall doctors

2 Sept 20267 min read

Every spring, before any climbing team sets foot on Everest, a small crew of Sherpa climbers has already been up and down the Khumbu Icefall dozens of times. They are the Icefall Doctors, and the route through the most dangerous kilometre on the mountain exists because of them. They carry aluminium ladders across crevasses that can swallow a person whole, fix ropes through a glacier that moves about a metre downhill every day, and return every few days to rebuild what the ice has shifted or collapsed. The name is not official and it is not ancient: it was coined relatively recently, and the story of how it stuck says something about how Everest operates. This post traces that history: who the Icefall Doctors are, how the role is organised, what they are paid, what gear they carry, and why the work is as respected as it is dangerous. If you have ever looked at a photograph of ladders strung across a blue-white void and wondered who put them there, this is the answer.

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