We go to the mountain for enlightenment, for self-realization, for adventure, for discovery. It's pregnant with meaning. When people see a mountain, they invest it with meaning. Not plot. Not character.

Expedition EVEREST adds a new dimension to our storytelling in Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's a thrilling adventure themed to the folklore of the mysterious yeti.

It's an adventure. I mean I spent a lot of time in the Himalayas and over the years have come to know them very well. I would say most important is the first sense you have in a place like that, and that is the sense of being on an adventure.

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.

You have to imagine this detail exists in a certain way to be passed over by people. We don't want them to look at a building, and say, 'Oh that's a building,' or look at a rock and say, 'Oh that's a rock.' You go right past it and just accept what it is.

Our story was really about the culture and the people, the areas where there is human habitation.