Truth be told, there was no greater adventure in my life than Everest, no lesson more deeply felt than the one I learnt the day I overcame my fears and successfully crossed the Icefall of my dread forebodings.
It carried me through the deep depression of losing the most valuable film we had, the footage of a lifetime, to sabotage or an accident, most likely the former. The lesson I learnt on Everest of the value of dharma in my life has carried me past the depths of many bitter disappointments later.
Successfully completing the Everest film also answered a pressing question to myself, of my ability to successfully engage with an increasingly competitive media industry. When I had resigned as a member of the prestigious Tata Administrative Service, I was poised on the precipice of unemployment, looking down a bottomless void. I had no job, no income. For two years, I lived off some savings and my wife’s earnings as a film actor. I was scraping the bottom.
The Everest mission and its award-winning film taught me to fly against the odds. Despite crash landings, I have still managed to stay airborne.
I assumed that my colleagues in the Everest mission had learnt to...
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