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Himalaya: Ladder to paradise is a five-episode Chinese series, that follows a group of Tibetan Mountaineering School graduates who had recently finished the six-year course and finally join an expedition to Mount Everest. Named by Tibetan residents, 'Ladder to Paradise' refers to little white ladders drawn onto rocks and cliffs on the Tibetan Plateau, believed to lead spirits to a Holy Land. To reach the top of the 'ladder' symbolizes a new starting point on the journey of life. The film is the first 4K Ultra-HD documentary filmed on Mount Everest. There is a 86 minutes documentary version of the story.

Also titled Himalaya: Ladder to paradise, this is the documentary version of the five-episode Chinese series Ximalaya tianti, that follows a group of Tibetan Mountaineering School graduates who had recently finished the six-year course and finally join an expedition to Mount Everest. Named by Tibetan residents, 'Ladder to Paradise' refers to little white ladders drawn onto rocks and cliffs on the Tibetan Plateau, believed to lead spirits to a Holy Land. To reach the top of the 'ladder' symbolizes a new starting point on the journey of life. The film is the first 4K Ultra-HD documentary filmed on Mount Everest.

The climbing of Mt. Everest by a Chinese expedition comprising eight men and one woman in 1975. The expeditoin, led by Shi Zhang-Chun, leader of the 1960 Chinese ascent, was organized by a 'Party Committee' and included Wang Fu-chou, one of the 1960 summiters. This was military-style expedition that used soldiers to carry supplies to the North Col and siege tactics to progressively reposition camps higher and higher up the mountain. A final assault camp is established between the First and Second Steps at 28,500 feet (8,680 meters) by the Mushroom Rock, and the Second Step is prepared with an aluminum ladder to overcome the final vertical headwall pitch. A team of nine climbers - eight Tibetan and one Chinese - reaches the summit on May 27, including a Tibetan woman, Phantog. Phantog becomes the second woman to summit Everest, losing this honor to Junko Tabei by only a few days. She is the first woman to summit from the Tibetan side.