This is the worst movie...

Sorry but climbing isn't about suspense either. It's more like this: climb, climb, climb, something happens out of the blue (meringue collapses and hurls you off the mountain, you slip and fall off the mountain, avalanche comes barreling down the corridor and buries you, ground opens beneath you and you fall into a crevice), then climb some more...if you survive the something that happens out of the blue.

Apart from the effects of oxygen deprivation there are no warnings, or at the most very little warning, when something happens on a mountain. As a result suspense just doesn't come into play. That's Hollywood stuff.

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I read your comments on "Everest" and after watching it halfway thru I agree that this telling is pretty awful. Someone might have told you, but a much better telling of this same story (including excellent suspense) was the 1997 TV movie Into Thin Air: Death on Everest. For me Nathaniel Parker does a much, much better job of portraying Rob Hall than Jason Clarke ever does. The 97 film does have narration, but I think it helps to explain things much better & its not the documentary type narration either. Hope this helps :)

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I cannot believe the majority of people involved in the making of this film did it for 'people who admire mountains'. That doesn't sound like a recipe for commercial success.

The problem with watching movies at home is it's too easy to turn off; walking out of a cinema demands a little more determination. I almost switched this off in the first five minutes after the pregnant woman with the vomit inducing 'be back in time for the birth' routine. I don't think it succeeds on any level, although points for trying.