Everest: The Other Side is a 2026 documentary film directed and produced by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin. A co-production of the United States, China, and Nepal, it follows Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson as they fall in love and share a dream of climbing and skiing down the North Face of Mount Everest.
The film had its world premiere out of competition at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2026, and it's scheduled to be theatrically released by National Geographic Documentary Films on October 30.
Premise Follows Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson as they fall in love and share a dream of climbing and skiing down the North Face of Mount Everest.
Release It had its world premiere out of competition of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2026, and had its North American premiere at the 53rd Telluride Film Festival. It will also screen at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival.
It is scheduled to be released in the United States by National Geographic Documentary Films on October 30.
Reception On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 82% based on 11 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 65 out of 100, based on eight critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com gave the film three out of four stars and wrote, "A lot of people are going to be moved and inspired by this movie. It's impressively assembled, from its elegant and clarifying drone footage to its first-person GoPro shots of crampons jabbing into icy rock walls and pickaxes crunching into hard snow."
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