For director Jennifer Peedom, bringing the story of Tenzing Norgay to the screen meant more than re-creating one of mountaineering’s most celebrated achievements. It also meant putting the Himalayan climber at the center of his own story and taking audiences onto real mountains to experience the dangers of the ascent.
Tenzing, written by Luke Davies, chronicles Norgay’s (Genden Phuntsok) journey to the summit of Mount Everest alongside New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary (Tom Hiddleston) in 1953, drawing on more than two decades of Peedom’s experience filming in the Himalayas to make her first narrative feature. Speaking recently at PMC Studios’
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