http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/australian-chamber-orchestra-moves-sensory-mountains-in-2017-season-20160815-gqsow2.html

http://realscreen.com/2016/07/26/sherpa-broken-brain-shortlisted-for-griersons/

https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2016/april/1459429200/luke-davies/blind-obsession

http://www.port-magazine.com/film/sherpa-life-and-death-on-everest/

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11.14.151:05 AM ET

Race Row on Mount Everest: Sherpas Square Off Against Racist Western Climbers 

The documentary ‘Sherpa’ captures an intense battle between Sherpas and entitled Western climbers—including one very racist American.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/14/race-row-on-mount-everest-sherpas-square-off-against-racist-western-climbers.html

By KEN JAWOROWSKI OCT. 1, 2015

What is the moral justification “for you to play what is essentially a game of Russian roulette” with someone’s life? It’s a brutal question posed by a journalist against the breathtaking backdrop of Mount Everest. It’s also one that nags at you throughout “,” an exceptionally absorbing documentary.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/movies/review-sherpa-delves-into-a-risky-profession.html

Anyone eager to see a stirring film set on Earth's highest peak is in luck: Just bypass "Everest" and go directly to "Sherpa," a documentary whose visual magnificence is more than matched by unforgettable characters and political urgency.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-sherpa-movie-review-20151001-story.html

By BROOKS BARNES and MICHAEL CIEPLYSEPT. 6, 2015

"...in the mountains of Telluride, “Sherpa” has been a breakout success, generating the kind of chatter among tastemakers that leads to awards attention. The happy outcome is perhaps fitting for a film from a woman who was credited as “high-altitude director” on the 2006 mini-series “Everest: Beyond the Limit.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/07/movies/sherpa-and-winter-on-fire-display-good-timing-at-telluride-film-festival.html

This documentary about the Himalayan mountain guides packs a visual and emotional punch.

The economic and spiritual significance of  is examined in “,” a visually magnificent and richly textured documentary centered on the Himalayan guides who’ve led foreigners to the highest place on Earth since 1953. Filmed during the tragic climbing season of 2014 that forever changed how Mount Everest’s lucrative tourist industry operates, this film from experienced Aussie documaker  packs an emotional punch to match its awe-inspiring imagery. “Sherpa” is assured of a lengthy fest life and strong sales across all smallscreen platforms, and has claims for niche theatrical exposure. Release details for Down Under and Blighty are to be confirmed.

Full review here: 

Dir: Jennifer Peedom. Australia. 2015. 96 mins.

Veteran high altitude director Jennifer Peedom climbs Mount Everest to champion mountaineering’s overlooked figures: the Sherpas who do the dangerous work which keeps Nepal’s climbing trade running. The only factual effort competing for the Sydney Film Festival’s prestigious $60,000 prize, this stunning documentary initially sticks to familiar beats of endurance and adversity. When nature unexpectedly intervenes, however, Sherpa swiftly proves as grippingly human and political as it does visually spectacular.

Full review here: 

Australian film-maker Jennifer Peedom’s moving study of Sherpa culture might be the most majestic-looking industrial dispute documentary ever made.

Full review here:

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/10/sherpa-first-look-review-everest-workers-rights

A gripping account of the worst day in Everest history and the Sherpas for whom it was the final straw. 

Rarely are documentaries as powerfully polemic and jaw-gapingly spectacular as Sherpa...

Full review here: