On March 24, 2007, an international team of doctors, scientists and filmmakers embarked on a three-month mission to conduct a series of medical experiments on the world’s tallest mountain and to document the expedition for a new IMAX® Theatre film. MacGillivray Freeman Filmswilldocument the expedition for its new film Return to Everest, a follow-up to the smash hit film Everest, the highest grossing IMAX Theatre film of all time. Return to Everest will reunite two of the original stars of Everest, Jamling Norgay and Araceli Segarra, as they travel to Everest to help the Nepalese Sherpa people and conduct research on what has changed in the eleven years since their successful 1996 climb. Return to Everest will be released to IMAX® Theatres and other giant screen cinemas in 2009.
