"I would have Sherpas pushing people out of the way and trying to make space for me in front of these big crowds to get proper footage," director Jennifer Peedom says. Photo: Courtesy of Felix Media Sherpas Get Their Say in New Everest Documentary The complicated relationship between high altitude workers and Western climbers is on display in ‘Sherpa’ With all the media attention lavished on Western mountaineers and guides who fly to Nepal with their eyes on Everest, it can be easy to forget that Sherpas comprise the backbone of commercial expeditions on the mountain. But until recently, few outside the industry have glimpsed the complicated relationship between foreign climbers and Sherpas in the Nepalese Himalaya. There was the 2013 brawl between Swiss mountaineer Ueli Steck’s climbing team and a group of Sherpas at Camp II. The next year, in 2014, an avalanche in the Khumbu Icefall killed 16 Sherpas and, notably, no foreigners. Both high-pro...