{"id":28833,"date":"2026-09-06T09:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/review-tenzing-is-so-much-more-than-a-mountain-climbing-movie\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T09:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:35:13","slug":"review-tenzing-is-so-much-more-than-a-mountain-climbing-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/review-tenzing-is-so-much-more-than-a-mountain-climbing-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: &#8216;Tenzing&#8217; is So Much More Than a Mountain Climbing Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstshowing.net\/author\/abillington\/\" rel=\"author\">Alex Billington<\/a>\t\t<br \/>September 5, 2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstshowing.net\/2026\/review-tenzing-is-so-much-more-than-a-mountain-climbing-movie\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media2.firstshowing.net\/firstshowing\/img18\/tenzingreviewmainimgbigsvtsr1.jpg\" alt=\"Tenzing Review\" width=\"350\" height=\"168\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I needed to go&#8230; the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on Earth.&#8221;<\/em> \ud83c\udfd4\ufe0f I must admit I have been waiting to see this film for many years. I first encountered wonderful Australian filmmaker Jennifer Peedom as the 2015 Telluride Film Festival, where she premiered her documentary titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstshowing.net\/2015\/telluride-2015-sherpa-is-one-of-the-best-documentaries-ive-seen\/\" title=\"Telluride 2015: 'Sherpa' is One of the Best Documentaries I've Seen\"><em>Sherpa<\/em><\/a>. In the 11 years since then, I&#8217;ve never seen any doc or feature which <em>properly<\/em> captures Nepal, Sherpas, or the actual experience being on the mountains better than that. However, in those 11 years I have been to Nepal myself and I even met the star of <em>Sherpa<\/em>, a Nepalese climber named Phurba Tashi. Peedom has been preparing to make this her entire life. <em>Tenzing<\/em> is <em>the<\/em> definitive, exceptionally accurate, thrilling story of the first summit of Mount Everest in May 1953. The two men who reached the top were Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand member of the British expedition and one of their local Sherpa guides named Tenzing Norgay, who was working with them as a climber and not just a porter.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstshowing.net\/2026\/review-tenzing-is-so-much-more-than-a-mountain-climbing-movie\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alex Billington September 5, 2026 &#8220;I needed to go&#8230; the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on Earth.&#8221; \ud83c\udfd4\ufe0f I must admit I have been waiting to see this film for many years. I first encountered wonderful Australian filmmaker Jennifer Peedom as the 2015 Telluride Film Festival, where she premiered<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":28834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[3572,36,1453],"class_list":["post-28833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-moviestv","tag-feat","tag-mixtv","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}