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Enter the hair-raising first entry of adventurer/filmmaker Alex Harz’s Quest Series. An immersive and epic project that aims to shed light on rarely heard stories from captivating places all over the world. In this debut effort, Harz and his team scale the peak of the mighty goddess mother of the world: Mount Everest. While doing so, he makes good on his quest, offering up thought-provoking snippets of life in Nepal and the inner workings of the Nepali people.

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The travel-documentary wastes no time in throwing the audience right into the action with the opening shot of Kathmandu in the nighttime. Scenes of tumultuous traffic and hardscrabble construction workers remind us of how similar Nepal is to its influential powerhouse of a neighbor, India, but somehow still clings onto its uniquely blended spiritual identity as we soon discover.

Yes drummer Alan White, who joined the progressive rock band in 1972 and stayed with them for the next 50 years, has died at 72 after a brief illness.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee is most famous for his work in Yes, but also performed with John Lennon in the Plastic Ono Band — He’s featured on both “Instant Karma” and “Imagine” — and with George Harrison on All Things Must Pass.

“Throughout his life and six-decade career, Alan was many things to many people,” his family wrote in a statement confirming his death.

For thousands of years, Everealm has been a land of unrivaled beauty and powerful magic. Now, the realm is threatened by a powerful evil Sorceress. So who you gonna call?

If you’re Disney+ (or the noble Fates of the series), you turn to eight teenage strangers known as the Paladins. They must face a series of challenges in order to restore balance to Everealm. That journey will be documented in the streamer’s new fantasy competition series, The Quest, which debuts on May 11. Castles, royals, ethereal fates and mystical creatures are on tap.

The Quest previously ran on ABC for one season in 2014, but will now feature more interactive elements. The series will be filmed at a castle outside of Vienna, Austria.

The series is executive produced by Court Five’s Mark Ordesky (The Lord of the Rings) and Jane Fleming, David Collins, Michael Williams, Rob Eric from Queer Eye producer Scout Productions,...