Genden Phuntsok stars in Everest film coverage, portraying Tenzing Norgay with charm and innocence as Tom Hiddleston plays Edmund Hillary.
A new Apple Studios biopic foregrounds Tenzing Norgay’s life, recounting the 1953 Everest ascent with Hillary and shedding light on climate-change impacts in the Himalayas. The film features authentic Sherpa casting and multiplies the focus on Norgay’s perspective, while Nepali voices warn that melting glaciers threaten mountaineering communities.