Everest ER: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

For this team of doctors, patients include everyone from the elite of the world's climbing communities, frostbitten and dying from pulmonary edema, to holiday trekkers with altitude sickness, and local children suffering from all the illnesses you might expect to find in one of the world's poorest countries. These volunteers must make life and death decisions on a daily basis, a world away from the facilities of a modern hospital. Evacuation from this altitude is either a two-day walk on the back of a porter or an expensive and dangerous helicopter ride. Further up the valley, on the Khumbu Glacier itself, sits the Everest Base Camp Clinic. Everest's magnetism is now such that in the peak climbing season, Base Camp can be home to thousands of people. And at this altitude, getting sick is a very serious business.

Series details

• Title: Everest ER
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Genres: Medical
• Premiere date: 2009-05-25
• Final broadcast date listed: 2009-06-22
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC One
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 31223
• IMDb ID: tt0815156
• TVDB ID: 98451

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2009-05-25; final listed air date 2009-06-22; episode order: 5.

Source and licence

Adapted from Everest ER on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.