MISSION COMPLETE
Legends
are told and movies are
made about Everest, but
nobody has ever managed to show the real climb from its bottom
to the top. It was an ambitious idea of Valdis Pelsh’s and RD Studio, a company producing documentaries, to do a real-time
story about real people, the fearless conquerors of the world’s greatest mountain,
that gave a start to this project.
Valdis Pelsh, showman, TV and documentary host and author, says, “We began shooting a movie about the climb
to Everest in spring 2015, but there was
an earthquake near Everest on May 25.
We had to choose between dropping the
project or looking for an opportunity to undertake a second expedition. In Toyota we
found like-minded people who shared our
dream of conquests. After winning Toyota’s
support we could worry about anything –
about the Chinese not opening access to
the mountain, our shooting equipment breaking down, the operators getting sick –
but there was one thing we never worried
about: the Land Cruisers will not fail and
will get us to the final destination”.