SHERPA Film takeover [7/12] by Renan_Ozturk // [Renan is a thenorthface professional climber, camp4collective adventure filmmaker and landscape artist who was the high-altitude director and main cinematographer of the feature doc SHERPA shot on the RED EPIC 6K.] // Oxygen tanks, heavy loads, precarious steps. This is what it looks like for a lot of the Sherpas and high-altitude workers inside the the Khumbu icefall. While most Westerners only go through the icefall a few times a season, these guys do countless rotations up and down to stock the upper camps. The icefall, a necessary hazard of climbing the south side of Everest, is a maze of giant ice towers and crevasses that can, and do, collapse without warning. These rickety ladders must be continuously re-jiggered throughout the season. In base camp after the avalanche tragedy, we saw the size of the loads some of the Sherpas were carrying that day. They were so huge it made it near impossible to run away from the falling ice blocks...