It's the holy grail of mountaineering: conquering Everest. And though producer Tim Bevan didn't so much as pull on a crampon, he'd be forgiven for feeling like he's pulled off a climbing feat of his own.
Everest was first planned in the late 1990s, not long after the tragedy which saw two expeditions caught in a deadly storm on the slopes.
When Universal lost interest, Bevan and Working Title got involved at the turn of the millennium. At one point, in the mid-noughties, when Stephen Daldry...
