# Mount Everest in popular culture

This is a list of media content related to Mount Everest, the Earth's highest mountain, with an elevation of 8,848 metres (29,029 ft) above sea level. Mount Everest was identified as such in the 19th century as a result of a geographical survey conducted by the British Empire. A century later it was climbed, after some infamous attempts in the preceding decades.
During the 20th and 21st centuries, the notoriety of Mount Everest increased and it became a common subject of novels and films, often focusing on particular expeditions or events at the mountain. For example, the 1998 film Everest was the highest grossing IMAX film up to that time, and some novels in the genre have sold millions of copies.

## Books
### Non-fiction

| Title | Author | Year of publication | Notes |
| A Day to Die For | Graham Ratcliffe | 2011 | about 1996 Mount Everest disaster |
| A Life on the Edge: Memoirs of Everest and Beyond | Jim Whittaker | 1999 | |
| After the Wind: 1996 Everest Tragedy – One Survivor's Story | Lou Kasischke | 2014 | about 1996 Mount Everest disaster |
| Aftershock | Jules Mountain | 2017 | 2015 Mount Everest avalanches |
| Ascent into Hell | Fergus White | 2017 | |
| Blind Descent: Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest | Brian Dickinson (climber) | 2014 | about 2011 season |
| Climbing High: A Woman's Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy | Lene Gammelgaard | 2000 | about 1996 Mount Everest disaster |
| Crystal Horizon: Everest: The First Solo Ascent | Reinhold Messner | 1989 | about 1978 and 1980 solo summits |
| Dark Summit | Nick Heil | 2008 | About 2006 season |
| Dead Lucky | Lincoln Hall (climber) | 2007 | About his first summit in 2006 season |
| Everest: Alone at the Summit | Stephen Venables | 2018 | about 1988 season |
| Everest: It's Not About the Summit | Ellis Stewart | 2016 | |
| Everest: Mountain without Mercy | Broughton Coburn | 1997 | photobook about 1996 Mount Everest disaster |
| Everest, the west ridge | Tom Hornbein | 1965 | about 1963 American Mount Everest expedition |
| Everest - The First Ascent: The Untold Story of Griffith Pugh, the Man who made it possible | Harriet Tuckey | 2013 | about 1952 British Cho Oyu expedition, 1953 British Mount Everest expedition and 1960–61 Silver Hut expedition |
| Everest the Hard Way | Chris Bonington | 1976 | about 1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition |
| Everest: The Unclimbed Ridge | Chris Bonington, Charles Clarke | 1984 | |
| Facing Up: A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Mt Everest | Bear Grylls | 2000 | |
| Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine | Jochen Hemmleb | 1999 | about 1924 British Mount Everest expedition |
| Going Up is Easy | Lydia Bradey | 2015 | |
| High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest | Edmund Hillary | 1955 | about 1953 British Mount Everest expedition |
| High Crimes: the Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed | Michael Kodas | 2008 | |
| High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving places | David Breashears | 1999 | |
| Into Thin Air | Jon Krakauer | 1997 | about 1996 Mount Everest disaster |
| Into the Silence | Wade Davis | 2011 | about 1922 British Mount Everest expedition |
| Just for the Love of it: The First Woman to Climb Mount Everest from Both Sides | Cathy O'Dowd, foreword by Ranulph Fiennes | 2000 | |
| Last Hours on Everest | Graham Hoyland | 2013 | about 1924 British Mount Everest expedition |
| Left for Dead | Beck Weathers | 2000 | about 1996 Mount Everest disaster |
| Master of Thin Air: Life and Death on the World's Highest Peaks | Andrew Lock | 2015 | about David Sharp's death on Everest in 2006 |
| One Man's Everest | Kenton Cool | 2015 | |
| No Summit out of Sight | Jordan Romero | 2014 | |
| See You Tomorrow | Jeremy Evans | 2021 | About Marco Siffredi snowboarding Everest in 2001 and 2002 |
| The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922: Special Centenary Edition | C. G. Bruce | 2022 | about 1922 British Mount Everest expedition |
| The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation | Clint Willis | 2006 | about Chris Bonington |
| The Climb | Anatoli Boukreev | 1997 | about 1996 Mount Everest disaster |
| The Fear Bubble | Ant Middleton | 2019 | about 2018 season |
| The Fight for Everest 1924 | E. F. Norton | 2015 | about 1924 British Mount Everest expedition |
| The Hunt for Mount Everest | Craig Storti | 2021 | about 1921 and prior |
| The Longest Climb: The Last Great Overland Quest | Dominic Faulkner | 2010 | |
| The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest | Conrad Anker | 1999 | about 1924 British Mount Everest expedition and Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition |
| The Mammoth Book of Everest | Jon E. Lewis | 2015 | Anthology |
| The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest | Ed Caesar | 2020 | about Maurice Wilson's ascent in 1934 |
| The Mountain: My Time on Everest | Ed Viesturs | 2013 | |
| The Other Side of Everest: Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm | Matt Dickinson | 1999 | about North Face (Everest) |
| The Storms: Adventure and Tragedy on Everest | Mike Trueman | 2015 | about 1996 Mount Everest disaster |
| The Third Pole: My Everest Climb to Find the Truth About Mallory and Irvine | Mark Synnott | 2021 | about 1924 British Mount Everest expedition and 2019 ascent with Renan Öztürk |
| The Turquoise Mountain: Brian Blessed on Everest | Brian Blessed | 1993 | |
| To the Top of the World | Brian Blessed | 1995 | |
| Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest | Broughton Coburn and Jamling Tenzing Norgay | 2001 | about 1953 British Mount Everest expedition |
| Ultimate High: My Everest Odyssey | Göran Kropp | 1997 | about 1996 Mount Everest disaster |
| Up: My Life's Journey to the Top of Everest | Ben Fogle and Marina Fogle | 2018 | about 2018 season |
| Up and About, The Hard Road to Everest | Doug Scott | 2015 | |
| View from the Summit: The Remarkable Memoir by the First Person to Conquer Everest | Edmund Hillary | 1999 | about 1953 British Mount Everest expedition |
| Within Reach: My Everest Story | Mark Pfetzer | 1998 | about 1996 Mount Everest disaster |
| Many Everests: An Inspiring Journey of Transforming Dreams Into Reality | Ravindra Kumar | 2016 | |
| Everest 1922: The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World’s Highest Mountain | Mick Conefrey | 2022 | about 1922 British Mount Everest expedition |

### Fiction

* The Summit of the Gods (2000–2003 manga)
* Everest trilogy ("The Contest", "The Climb", and "The Summit"), Gordon Korman (2002)
* Peak, Roland Smith (2007)
* Paths of Glory, Jeffrey Archer (2009)
* The Abominable, Dan Simmons (2013)
* Dixon, Descending, Karen Outen (2024)

## Film and television

| Title | Year | Genre | Notes |
| The Sherpa Family Cleaning up Mount Everest | 2022 | Documentary | Directed by Geertjan Lassche |
| SHERPAS · True Heroes of Mount Everest | 2009 | Documentary | ARTE |
| 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible | 2021 | Documentary | |
| 40 Days at Base Camp | 2011 | Documentary | about 2011 season |
| Bear's Mission Everest | 2007 | Documentary | with Bear Grylls |
| Beyond the Edge | 2013 | Documentary | about 1953 British Mount Everest expedition |
| Death Zone: Cleaning Mount Everest | 2012 | Documentary | about cleaning Everest directed by Marina Martins narrated by Patrick Stewart |
| Everest Air | 2016 | Reality TV show | |
| Everest | 1998 | Documentary | about 1996 Mount Everest disaster, a MacGillivray Freeman Films narrated by Liam Nelson for Imax |
| Everest '82 | 2007 mini-series | Documentary | about 1982 season |
| Everest: Beyond the Limit | 2006–2009 TV series | Documentary | |
| Everest ER | 2006 | Documentary | BBC documentary about Everest ER |
| Everest: Kamigami no Itadaki (エヴェレスト 神々の山嶺 Everesuto Kamigami no Itadaki) | 2016 | Drama | |
| Everest: The Death Zone | 1998 | Documentary | Produce by NOVA, narrated by Jodie Foster |
| Extreme Everest | 2018 | Documentary | with Ant Middleton and Ed Wardle about 2018 season |
| Lost on Everest | 2020 | Documentary | Renan Öztürk |
| Galahad of Everest | 1991 | Documentary | with Brian Blessed |
| High Ground | 2012 | Documentary | about 2010 season |
| Keeper of the Mountains | 2013 | Documentary | about Elizabeth Hawley |
| Mount Everest | 1952 | Documentary | |
| The Epic of Everest | 1924 | Documentary | restored 2013, about 1924 British Mount Everest expedition |
| The Challenge: Everest | 2018 | Documentary | with Ben Fogle, Victoria Pendleton and Kenton Cool about 2018 season |
| The Conquest of Everest | 1953 | Documentary | |
| The Climb | 2007 | Documentary | about Laurie Skreslet ascent in 1982 |
| The Man Who Skied Down Everest | 1975 | Documentary | about Yuichiro Miura in 1970 |
| The Summit of the Gods | 2021 | Animation | |
| The Wildest Dream | 2010 | Documentary | about 1924 British Mount Everest expedition |
| Ultimate Survival: Everest | 2004 | Documentary | about 2004 season |
| Wings Over Everest | 1934 | Documentary | |

### Fiction/Dramatizations

* Everest (2015)
* Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (1997 TV movie)
* Khangri: The Mountain (1996 Nepalese film)
* Lost on Everest (1998 TV episode)
* Mallory's Tragedy on Mount Everest (1954 TV episode)
* Miracle on Everest (2007)
* Our Everest Challenge (TV movie)
* Summit of Dreams (1998)
* Storm Over Everest (2008 TV episode)
* Monty Python's Flying Circus, "The All-England Summarize Proust Competition," the skit: "Everest Climbed by Hairdressers" (1972 TV episode)
* The Climb (2017)
* Touch the Top of the World (2006 TV movie)
* Wings Over Everest (2019)

## Other

* Expedition Everest, a roller coaster at Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park in Florida, and the most expensive roller coaster ever built at the time
* Mount Everest webcam, the world's highest live webcam, installed near the mountain in 2011
* Everest, a 2000 computer game
* Everest VR, a video game with virtual reality support based on the Unreal 4 game engine
* Mount Everest, a board game