KATHMANDU, Nov 8 (PR) – Nepal is going to host 49 documentaries and feature films on mountains in the first-ever Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (KIMFF) next month, a press release states.

A press release by KIMFF states that 3 feature films, 2 docudramas, and 44 documentaries, from film makers around the world, will be screened from December 1 to 4 in the capital.

The films featuring in KIMFF range from the search for legendary Everest climber George Leigh Mallory’s body to the story of a friendship between a Yeti and a Sherpa and from a journey of a blind, black, blues musician to the lost land of Tanna-Tuva in Central Asia to how two paragliders make a trans-Himalayan flight in western Nepal, says the release.

In the programme, Indian climber and author Harish Kapadia will give a lecture on war and mountaineering in the Karakoram. The works of Himalayan Photographers of Nepal will also be exhibited during the four-day-long festival.