First to summit Mt. Everest: Tenzing (film)

TENZING (2026 film)

Now at NoHo7, LA, and soon on Apple TV

Based on true events, Tenzing chronicles the little-known story of Tenzing Norgay (played by Genden Phuntsok), a gifted Himalayan Sherpa climber who, alongside New Zealand mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary (Tom Hiddleston), was the first to summit Mt. Everest.

Encouraged by his wife Dawa (Thinley Lhamo), Tenzing finds an ally in expedition secretary Jill Henderson (Caitríona Balfe). Together, they persuade Colonel John Hunt (Willem Dafoe) that Tenzing belongs on the British climbing team, rather than merely serving it.

Whereas Western climbers see Mt. “Everest” as something to be conquered, Tenzing and the other indigenous Sherpas revere Chomolungma (lit. “Head in the Sky” or more loosely “Goddess of the Sky”) as the sacred Mother Goddess. The Tibetan name for Mt. Everest is Qomolangma (ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ, lit. “Holy Mother”).

Tenzing (2026 film) Hollywood, USA

What follows is an ascent defined as much by the tensions between backgrounds, classes, and competing ambitions as by the perils of the mountain itself.

But high above the world, empire, rank, and aspiration fall away, leaving two outsiders bound by mutual respect and trust — and for Tenzing, the fulfillment of both a life-long dream and a spiritual calling.

Directed by award-winning filmmaker Jennifer Peedom, Tenzing is a story of greatness that refuses to be diminished — and the human love that makes it possible. Source. NOW SHOWING:

• Laemmle's NoHo 7, North Hollywood
• Tasveer Film Center, Seattle (Laemmle)

INSIDE THE ARTHOUSE (Laemmle) 

Sir Edmund Hillary and his guide Sherpa Tenzing Norgay climb Mount Everest, 1953 (archive video)

The world may argue who was first, but as friends we would never squabble over it.

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Tenzing Himalayan Mountaineering Inst

(The Guardian) May 29, 2013: VAJRAYANA BUDDHIST NEPAL, Himalayas - There exists an archive newsreel with footage that shows how New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepali Sherpa climber Tenzing Norgay became the first humans in recorded history to climb to the summit of Mount Everest, allegedly the highest (not tallest) peak on the planet.

Edmund Hillary and his best Sherpa friend and guide Tenzing Norgay, circa 1953

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  Tibetan lamas mapping Mt. Sumeru in sand

  There are allegations that K2 in Pakistan is in fact higher. That this can be questioned in modern times is not in spite of technology but because of it. Past attempts to determine their heights has been hampered by snow layers and politics. The Hawaiian giant Mauna Kea is no doubt taller but seated on the ocean floor so as to not be higher; and the mythical Mt. Sumeru of Buddhist cosmology and lore, supported by Vedic, Hindu, and Jain cosmologies, if such a peak is confirmed to exist as a tangible rock and soil mountain would be both far taller and far higher up. See also List of tall mountain peaks by prominence.
• 1953 British Mount Everest expedition

Who are these mysterious animistic-Buddhist Sherpa people of the Himalayas?

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I owe it all to my Sherpa porter

Their achievement came two days after a British expedition, led by John Hunt, came within 100 meters (330 feet) of the summit. On Wednesday, May 29, it will be the 60th anniversary of Hillary and Tenzing's conquest of the world's tallest mountain.

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New ice age coming soon?

Yeah, but could they conquer K2?

The Last First: Winter K2 — Ambition, Tragedy and the Fight for K2

Statue of mountaineer Edmund Hillary looking up toward peak of Mount Cook

• Jennifer Peedom, Tenzing; Laemmle; CC Liu, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Why were the Sumerians so strange?

(Nils) The first civilization in the world was rather strange

Sumerians say MOON a vessel brought here

(The Enki Codex) The Sumerians call our local moon a "vessel" -- and described in detail who built it and why

So advanced were the SUMERians of Sumer that Wisdom Quarterly is inclined to think that their land, civilization, and technology may be the basis of Buddhist Mt. Sumeru, a launch site or spaceport to the stars.

(Genesis Chamber) The Sumerian tablet that says our hollow Moon was brought here - and describes what's inside

Discovered text 'could destroy the church'

(Danny Jones) "This could destroy the church" NEW lost ancient text discovered | Matt LaCroix

Trek up Mt. Kailash? No one's ever climbed it

(TREND SCOPE)

Science: Evidence of pre-flood civilization

(Origins Explained) Scientists found new evidence of a pre-flood civilization

Mt. Everest: Storm traps 1,000 rich climbers

Hundreds trapped by out-of-season blizzard conditions on Mount Everest

COST: Price of completing the world’s most iconic mountain climbs (outforia.com)

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(NBC News) Oct. 5, 2025: Rescue efforts were underway on Sunday on Tibet’s eastern slope of Mount Everest, where nearly 1,000 [rich] people [spending at least $84,000 in 1922 prices for the attempt to summit and gain bragging rights] were trapped by a blizzard, according to Chinese state media reports. NBC News’ Camila Bernal has the latest. For more context and news coverage of the most important stories of the day, click: nbcnews.com. #nbcnews #currentevents

(BBC News) Rescuers bringing down rich, trapped, Everest climbers

(DW News) Heavy snowfall has trapped hikers on slopes of Mt. Everest

Heavy snowfall, wind, rain has trapped hikers on the slopes of Mount Everest

(DW News) Oct. 6, 2025: DW (Deutsche World) is a German public broadcast service. One trekker has died. Rescuers have guided hundreds of other trekkers trapped on Everest to safety. Unusually heavy snowfall and rainfall have battered the Himalayas. According to Chinese state media, the hikers have reached the small township of Qudang, Tingri County, and rescuers have made contact with the remaining 200 trekkers. Kenton Cool, a British mountaineer, talks about the situation and rescue efforts.

Did ancient Sumerians create it all?

• Mysterious Old World

Sumerian: historic Anunnaki civilization

• Mysterious Old World: Sumerians, did they invent everything? They claim to have invented nothing. It was all given to them by the Anunnaki, those who came from the sky. Ask Zecharia Sitchin. But 6,000 years ago and longer, in a place called Sumer (reminiscent of Mt. Sumeru in Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain cosmology), there lived a people in Mesopotamia doing miraculous things they should not have been able to do.

I found source of Ganges: Mt. Kailash

• Jamyang Tour travels to holy Tibet; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

World's most mysterious: Mt. Kailash

The Most Mysterious Mountain in the World | Mount Kailash

(Harry Sahota) Premiered Oct. 13, 2024: This is the Mount Kailash mystery: To date, close to 7,000 different people have scaled Mt. Everest, the highest mountain in the world. K2, the second highest, is much tougher to summit, but people have done it. However, there is one mountain thousands of meters shorter and not even on the list of Top T00 highest peaks in the world that no one dares to attempt to climb, not even the most experienced mountaineers. That mountain is the possible non-mountain Mt. Kailash.

EXPLORE the 14,000-year-old Hindu Cit... How this content was made: Altered or synthetic content. Sound or visuals were significantly edited or digitally generated. Learn more:  #mountain #mystery #kailash

Lake's 'Buddhist Nuns of Lotus Abbey'

More sacred than Lake Titicaca in the Americas is the biggest lake in all of Tibet and China

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(TRACKS - Travel Documentaries) Explore the mysterious island at the heart of Tibet/China’s largest lake (Qinghai Lake), where very few outsiders have ever been before. Here (at the Holy Mountain at the Heart of the Lake Island, home of Jetsun Tara_(Buddhism), "Mother of all the Buddhas"), the Buddhist nuns of the convent Lotus Abbey reside, devoting their life to meditation -- far from the outside world. Taken from the series "Lakes on the Roof of the World."

• Lake Rakshastal: Yeti (Ogre) Salt Lake
• TRACKS, Jan. 10, 2018; Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Star People of Hawaii: Mu's Mt. Sumeru?

The axis mundi Mt. Sumeru

In Buddhist cosmology, the central mountain around which everything else on the plane of the Earth revolves is Mount Sumeru (or "Good Meru"). It is thought mythological because it would be bigger than Mt. Everest or Mt. Kailash and it should be in the middle of the ocean. The lost continent of Mu (or Lemuria) would fit the bill, and the peak of this sunken continent still sticks up above sea level, and it is called Hawaii's Mauna Kea. It did not get shorter when the continent sank; the floor got lower, and most of it is underwater. So it is like a tall person standing in a hole next to a guy named Everest standing on a platform. The "tallest" mountain is still Mauna Kea.

• VIDEO: The enigmatic 'Ancient Alien Library' concealed beneath the Great Sphinx (Wm. Shatner)

Ancient Aliens: Hawaii and Mauna Lea's link to extraterrestrial life and "star people" (S14, E12) | full episode

Pele gets very angry. Appease her.

(HISTORY) Aug. 31, 2024: The Native Hawaiians (and dwarf Menehune) of Hawaii trace their ancestry to star people beings from the Pleiades star system called the Atua (also Akua). A kind of "Atlantis" once existed in the middle of the Pacific known as ancient Lemuria (or Mu). And it had the world's tallest mountain, an axis mundi, Mauna Kea, as measured from the base to the snowy peak. Mauna Loa volcano and four others are still erupting and growing the big island. What are tikis, who were the royals and Hawaiian demigod chieftains emanating mana, and the "little people" or Menehune who worked to build walls and were recorded in past censuses?

Native American giants? (AI creation?)

See more in Season 14, Episode 12, "Islands of Fire."

How many little islands and outcroppings? Over 1,000 = Hawaii

Watch all new episodes of Ancient Aliens, Fridays at 9/8c, and stay up to date on all of your favorite shows on The HISTORY Channel website at history.com/schedule. #AncientAliens

Could mysterious Kailash be Mt. Sumeru?

What's the most mysterious mountain in world? Mt. Sumeru or Mt. Kailash?

(Motech) July 24, 2024: The Mount Kailash Mystery: To date, close to 7,000 different people have scaled Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world (unless that's K2). But there is one mountain thousands of meters shorter and not even in the Top 100 highest peaks in the world that no one has climbed and no one even dares to try to climb, not even the most experienced mountaineers. That mountain is Mount Kailash -- which has many features that suggest it may be the mythical "mountain" at the center of Buddhist cosmology, as well as that of Hindu and Jain cosmologies. The mountain is also central to the indigenous Bon shamanism of the Himalayan range. That mountain, the axis mundi, is Mt. Sumeru ("Good Mount Meru"). #kailash #mystery #mountain

Is this a mountain ET base like Mt. Shasta, CA?

Not a solid black mass but concrete with rocks?

• Maybe we stand corrected: High in Bhutan, this is not Mt. Sumeru
• VIDEO: Yggdrasil: Worlds in Norse mythology

Mt. Sumeru at the center of Buddhist cosmology

Even Taoism, justly famous for its yin-yang symbol, is aware of Mt. Sumeru.

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Bhutanese thanka of Mt. Meru in Buddhist Universe

Mount Meru (Sanskrit and Pali मेरु, "Mountain High") is also known as Mt. Sumeru, Sineru, or Mahā Meru.

It is the sacred mountain of Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain cosmologies. It is considered to the center of all physical, metaphysical, and spiritual universes [1], [the axis mundi of a multiverse, which is not to say every multiverse in the omniverse].

This mysterious "mountain" (or magnetic lines of force extending out of the atmosphere and into space where the heavenly planes are physically located) is also mentioned in some scriptures of non-Dharmic religions such as Taoism, which was influenced by the arrival of Buddhism in China [2].

There is no clear identification of Mt. Sumeru with a particular geophysical location, but it is always located in the Himalayan or Aravalli ranges. Many famous Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain temples have been built as symbolic representations of this mountain.

Why is this one bead different than the others?

The "Sumeru Throne" (须弥座 xūmízuò) style base is a common feature of Chinese pagodas. The highest point (finial bud) on the pyatthat, a Burmese-style multi-tiered roof, represents Mount Meru.

THE NAME meru derives from Sanskrit and means "high." The proper name of the mountain is Meru (Sanskrit Meruparvata), with the prefix su-, resulting in the meaning "Excellent or Sublime Mount Meru" [3]. Meru is also the name of the central bead in a string of rosary beads or mālā [4]. 

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• Motech, 7/24/24; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit Mount Meru

Mom, I'm trekking to Mt. Everest (video)

I visited Mount Everest Base Camp

(Luke Korns) July 28, 2024: What's up? My name is Luke Korns. I trekked to Everest Base Camp with a retired Nepalese Sherpa guide from the Himalayas. His name is Phanden. To contact him, email sherpa.phanden@gmail.com. Follow me on Twitter (lukekorns ) or Instagram (LukeKorns).

Featured places. See more information in Google Maps Everest Base Camp Campground 4.7 (519) Details

Once upon a time in Nepal...

Just give me a few years of silence.

Once upon a time in Nepal a boy sought enlightenment. He sat under a tree in the woods. But soon he attracted all the wrong kind of attention. It wasn't just the tree spirits and unseen beings who haunt the forest. It was devoted looky-loos and devoted observers. He got up and went somewhere else, acting like a modern-day Siddhartha.

[But Prince Sid Gautama was actually in Gandhara, what the ancient Greeks called Scythia, in the territory or mahajanapada of the Sakas (Indo-Scythians) called Kapilavastu. But never mind about that detail; historians have relocated him to tiny Nepal on the border of India where it's easier to safeguard his story and monuments, leaving the massive ones in and around his hometown in Afghanistan to languish for centuries with no one paying much attention until recently: Mes Aynak, Bamiyan, Ajina Tepe...]

I'm a do-it-yourselfer, a self-awakened buddha.

The boy's name was Ram Bahadur Bomjon (nicknamed "Buddha Boy" for some similarities to the story of Siddhartha), who eventually became an esoteric Vajrayana lama and spiraled into disrepute. Too much fame too soon does that to a meditator.

What would it have taken to ascend the mountain of wisdom and reach the pinnacle of knowing-and-seeing? Restraints on practice, boundaries, a solid disciplinary code (vinaya). "All we ever wanted was everything. All we ever got was cold," sings Bauhaus. Now could an American reach the Holy Land and get to the base of what is reputedly the tallest mountain in the world?

But, Son, what about avalanches? - Oh, Mom!

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• Luke Korns, wandering in Nepal, 2024; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Sumerian, biblical Noah's Ark found?

Mount Ararat consists of two volcanic cones in Turkey near Yerevan, Armenia.

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British Museum Flood Tablet (Gilgamesj)

Ancient tablets from Sumer speak of a vessel that survived a worldwide flood helmed by Ziusudra (Eridu Genesis). We call it Noah’s Ark, a history appropriated by Hebrews from older sources.

• Gilgamesh flood myth (Sumerian)
• Flood myth
• A much older Cuneiform tablet dating to 1646-1626 B.C., about 1,000 years before the Bible's Book of Genesis (In the beginning") is believed to have been written and known as the Epic of Atra-Hasis describing a great flood was discovered in 1898. J. P. Morgan acquired it and today it is in the Morgan Library & Museum.

Epic of Gilgamesh

It has been found, and here is the evidence, including photographs. Visit it without any need to climb a glacier to get to it. It sits in Turkey, 17 miles from Mt. Ararat at an elevation of 6,000-feet. It

• is man-made,
• was designed as a boat,
• incorporates principles of advanced hydrodynamics,
• has decks and interior chambers,
• is the proper dimension,
• is in the right geographical location,
• is accompanied by large anchor stones,
• has been visited by religious pilgrims for thousands of years,
• is consistent with the Bible, the Koran, the Torah, and the ancient tablets from Sumer, and
• is surrounded by mountains and villages with names from antiquity relating to the ark’s landing. 

Tartaria, mud flood, Mr. Nagy (althist.com)

This documentary was written and narrated by G. Edward Griffin in 1993 and features expert testimony by David Fasold, Donald Patten, Sam Windsor, and Marvin Luckerman. DVD source: Reality Zone (realityzone.com + VIDEO).

• Waterfall discovery changes evolution timeline
• The Discovery of Noah's Ark - It's Really There! - Red Pill University; Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

17 scientific finds suggest Noah's flood real

Pat Macpherson, Sheldon S., Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

17 scientific finds that suggest Noah's flood could be historically accurate (ark not so much)

We took it from ancient Sumer. (Mt. Sumeru?)

Could there have been a worldwide flood? Of course. It might not be literal, flooding everywhere and everything at once. But if sea levels only rose a foot or more, that would be devastating. It's an ancient Sumerian story appropriated by Hebrew speaking Jews who abrogated to themselves all of these events that were far older than Semitic tribes wandering around the modern North Africa. Mesopotamia (Iraq), Babylon, Persia, Iran, and all the places that may be called the "geopolitical Middle East" have connections to more ancient histories.

• 17 Scientific Finds That Suggest Noah's Flood Could Be Historically Accurate (msn.com)

Tiny house to survive the coming apocalypse, made of a simple concrete pipe, fitted with a round wooden door, slats to a bed, add foam outside to make it float on water. Or stick it in the side of a hill to be a great, insulated artificial "cave" that can be locked. Hole on top provides light and air. Add more to build a pod or hive, a community network as in ancient Anatolia/Turkey.