🇬🇧Press: The Guardian: Epic Cycling, Tough Climbs and Elemental Suffering
Nov 8, 2022Happy to be quoted in UK’s “The Guardian” article on the best adventure documentaries in The Banff Mountain Film Festival! The article highlights part of the important backstory of “Dream Mountain” and Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita:
“One morning, I was interviewing Pasang on a ridge overlooking Mount Everest and Khumjung village, where she was born,” says film-maker Cira Crowell. “She was struggling for ways to express the challenges she experienced growing up – being told that climbing and mountains were inappropriate for girls.“ A bell rang in the cold air and the students of Sir Edmund Hillary School poured out of the stacked-stone buildings to line up in neat rows for morning assembly. It triggered a memory in Pasang, who said: ‘You know, all those boys down there are free to do whatever they want to do in life. The girls cannot. All the girls should be able to follow their dreams too.’ “It was a mic-drop moment as we considered the fates of the girls below and how limited their options still are. This moment epitomised the central theme of Dream Mountain.”
By Peter Beaumont: Epic Cycling, Tough Climbs and Elemental Suffering
In Light ~
Cira
