Crossing the Himalaya

by John Murray

Ireland, 2007
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Colour
Length: 50’
Language: Nepalese, English

Italian premiere

A long trip across one of the most beautiful areas of the Himalayas, following the largest annual migration that exists on this planet. Every year, the families of yak shepherds, who are Buddhist, gather their belongings and prepare to leave their mountain houses before the winter destroys them. Theirs is a voyage against time and the advancing cold. The entire existence of the Dolpa-pa revolves around this voyage that takes them on a long trek through unconstrained landscapes and across the highest passes in the world, until the entire caravan of men and animals, exhausted, reaches its destination, the level valleys of southern Nepal. Here they sell their goods and take on supplies to face another brutal winter in the Himalayas.

John Murray
John Murray, born in 1964, earned a degree in zoology from Trinity College in Dublin, and then began a career as an underwater photographer. He worked for many years as a journalist for television programs focusing on scientific, environmental, and health themes. The enormous success of his first film, made in 1991 during an Irish expedition to the Himalayas, led him to found his own production house, Crossing the Line Films.

Director: John Murray
Photography: John Murray
Editing: James Dalton
Sound: Christian Staunton
Music: Stephen McKeon, Cyril Morin, Nawang Khecmog
Producer: John Murray
Production Company: Crossing the Line Films

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