Everest '82 is a Canadian drama film miniseries directed by Graeme Campbell and written by Keith Ross Leckie.
The series is based on the 1990 book Canadians on Everest: The Courageous Expedition of 1982 by Bruce Patterson of the Times-Colonist newspaper.
The movie then switches to an Everest expedition making its way through the dramatic Nepalese countryside approaching the mountain.
The expedition leaders are already fighting, which does little to reassure the conflicted doubts Laurie has about climbing and the guilt he feels over his friend's death.
Everything goes wrong, the media turns against them, the sponsors cut off supplies and tell them to come home, the mountain is too unstable.