Tenzing Norgay Trainor is the grandson of Tenzing Norgay, the first Sherpa to reach the summit of Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary.
The film was not released theatrically in Vietnam or Malaysia after producers decided not to cut out one shot with a map that supported Chinese territorial claims to disputed regions in the South China Sea.
The Avatar mountains and Leshan Giant Buddha are real locations. Li's hometown looks a lot like Hong Kong, which has a laser show every night at 8:00 pm.
Originally titled Everest.
In one scene where the hunters are searching for the yeti, different hunters shout "there it is." At the same time, the whooping snakes making "whoop" noises. These are timed to form the lyrics of the chorus to the 1993 Tag Team hit "Whoomp (There It Is)."