Chasing Ice vs Everest Dark

Everest Dark has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.5/10 for Chasing Ice). Chasing Ice is the shorter watch at 1h 14m compared with 1h 30m. Chasing Ice is the older of the two (2012 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Chasing IceEverest Dark
Audience score★ 7.5/10★ 10.0/10
Year20122025
Length1h 14m1h 30m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country–Canada
DirectorJeff OrlowskiJereme Watt
Main castJames Balog, Svavar Jonatansson, Adam LeWinter, Louie Psihoyos, Kitty BooneJaswant Dev Shrestha, Pem Futi Sherpa, Nim Tsiri Sherpa, Nima Temba Sherpa, Mingma Tsiri Sherpa

Synopsis

Chasing Ice

When National Geographic photographer James Balog asked, “How can one take a picture of climate change?” his attention was immediately drawn to ice. Soon he was asked to do a cover story on glaciers that became the most popular and well-read piece in the magazine during the last five years. But for Balog, that story marked the beginning of a much larger and longer-term project that would reach epic proportions.

Everest Dark

Tourists line up at the foot of Mount Everest to climb the mythological mountain – and to tell everyone else about the feat. For the same reason, Mount Everest has become a graveyard full of the frozen corpses of fallen mountaineers. But the story of the world’s highest mountain also has another, overlooked side: the local one. For around the huge mountain between Nepal and Tibet lives a local population with their own worldview, which is very…

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