Film Review: Everest

 Genre:   Adventure, Drama, Thriller                 

Cert: 12A              

Director: Baltasar Kormákur

Screen writer: William Nicholson (screenplay), Simon Beaufoy (screenplay) 

Starring: Jason Clarke , Ang Phula Sherpa , Thomas M. Wright , Martin Henderson , Tom Goodman-Hill , Charlotte Bøving , Pemba Sherpa , Amy Shindler , Simon Harrison , Chris Reilly , John Hawkes , Naoko Mori , Michael Kelly , Tim Dantay , Todd Boyce

Running time: 121 min

Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: Brief scenes where characters share kisses.

There is nothing else of note.

Violence & Gore: There is many frequent scenes of Peril and extreme threat.

Disturbing scenes when the climbers are in danger, start hallucinating due to oxygen deprivation, and even fall off the mountain.

Moments of intense peril and scenes in which characters look dead and are covered in snow and frostbite.

Several dead bodies are seen

A character has severe frostbite, the camera focuses on areas of the body which have been affected.

Profanity:  Nothing noteworthy. 

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking:Occasional drinking in a few scenes.

A character uses a syringe to inject drugs(for medical reasons).

Other medical drug uses.

Frightening/Intense Scenes:  Very Intense, themes of death and quite frightening particularly towards the end.

This movie is also based on a true story.

Official MPAA Rating: PG-13 for Intense Peril And Disturbing Images

Story: On the morning of May 10, 1996, climbers (Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin) from two expeditions start their final ascent toward the summit of Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. With little warning, a violent storm strikes the mountain, engulfing the adventurers in one of the fiercest blizzards ever encountered by man. Challenged by the harshest conditions imaginable, the teams must endure blistering winds and freezing temperatures in an epic battle to survive against nearly impossible odds.

Likes : I remember the day this event took place as it was all over the news on that day, it was such a tragic day for a group of brave mountaineer how just when on the day of the year as the weather dangerously turn on them.

This film portrays the brilliantly as the director hasn't left any stone unturned, unlike most director where they just make the film & make things up he actually done his research on the events of that day as well as an interview with the Beck Weathers that they through was dead, managed through shear will to live against all odd walked back to based camp in alot of pain through exposure.

The soundtrack and cinematography are just amazing for such a film i feel should get an Oscar for a compelling emotional & intense story of true events. The acting is brilliant done & portray each person that when up that mountain should get an Oscar for it.

 There are so many stunning and majestic places on earth , spellbinding as mount Everest itself is its one of the most dangerous places on earth, its not the easiest of mountain to climb over the years it come to be name the mountain of death as over 81 people have lost there lives on the side of Everest since 1922 to 2015. Its become a grave yard of body's as it to dangerous to bring the body's back due to altitude & weather it would just add more body's to the mountain they are still there today frozen in place where they died.

Baltasar is an Icelandic film-maker who knows how to shoot a film in such an environment where the weather can be unpredictable and it can go against you at any time. He didn't want all of this movie to be shot entirely in a studio, this is not entirely visual effects work, they actually went to Nepal and some of the other locations include Val Senales,

Italy. It's out there in the elements, outdoors locations that force even the actors themselves to leave their trailer comfort zone behind. And that is evident on screen, it really shows, because every single frame successfully makes us the audience feel like we're there, we feel the danger, as if we're there climbing the mountain, feeling the pain that comes with excruciating cold because human bodies aren't design to survive such temperature.

I think the timing of the arrival of this movie could not have been more perfect. If EVEREST was made a decade or fifteen years ago, for example, when film making technology and the cameras weren't as advanced, I'm not sure if it could've given us a movie-watching experience of this quality.

This truly is an incredible film to watch that will shock you & have you in tears from the sheer emotional moments not because of what you see on screen its knowing that what you seeing actually happened to these brave men & woman on that mountain in may 11th 1996. This truly is a film to watch brilliantly filmed to be realistic & true facts where use to make this film realistic as possible in memory of those who lost there lives. May they rest in peace

Dislikes : Nothing wrong with this film.

Overall : Very hard hitting emotional event in history shown the brave men & woman that lost their lives on Everest in 1996, truly one of the most breath taking film your ever see. 

Rating: 5 out of 5 for entertainment / 10 out of 10 for true story event.

In loving memory of the mountaineers who lost there lives on may 11th 1996 May they all rest in peace:

                                                      Rob Hall R.I.P 

                                      (14 January 1961 – 11 May 1996

Adventure Consultants' 1996 Everest expedition consisted of eight clients and three guides (Hall, Mike Groom and Andy Harris). Among the clients was Jon Krakauer, a journalist on assignment from Outside magazine. Hall had brokered a deal with Outside for advertising space in exchange for a story about the growing popularity of commercial expeditions to Everest.

Shortly after midnight on 10 May 1996, the Adventure Consultants expedition began a summit attempt from Camp IV, atop the South Col. They were joined by climbers from Scott Fischer's Mountain Madness company, as well as expeditions sponsored by the governments of Taiwan and India.

The expeditions quickly encountered delays. Upon reaching the Hillary Step, the climbers discovered that no fixed line had been placed, and they were forced to wait for an hour while the guides installed the ropes (Rob nonetheless "fixed most of the mountain in 1996"). Because some 33 climbers were attempting the summit on the same day, and Hall and Fischer had asked their climbers to stay within 150 m of each other, there were bottlenecks at the single fixed line at the Hillary Step. Many of the climbers had not yet reached the summit by 2:00 pm, the last safe time to turn around in order to reach Camp IV before nightfall.

Hall's Sardar, Ang Dorje Sherpa, and other climbing Sherpas waited at the summit for the clients. Near 3:00 pm, they began their descent. On the way down, Ang Dorje encountered client Doug Hansen above the Hillary Step, and ordered him to descend. Hansen refused.When Hall arrived at the scene, he sent the Sherpas down to assist the other clients, and stated that he would remain to help Hansen, who had run out of supplementary oxygen.

At 5:00 pm, a blizzard struck the Southwest Face of Everest, diminishing visibility and obliterating the trail back to Camp IV. Shortly afterward, Hall radioed for help, saying that Hansen had fallen unconscious but was still alive. Adventure Consultants guide Andy Harris began climbing to the Hillary Step at 5:30 pm with supplementary oxygen and water.

On 11 May, at 4:43am, Hall radioed down and said that he was on the South Summit. He reported that Harris had reached the two men, but that Hansen had died sometime during the night and that Harris was missing as well. Hall was not breathing bottled oxygen, because his regulator was too choked with ice. By 9:00 am, Hall had fixed his oxygen mask, but indicated that his frostbitten hands and feet were making it difficult to traverse the fixed ropes. Later in the afternoon, he radioed to Base Camp, asking them to call his wife, Jan Arnold, on the satellite phone. During this last communication, he reassured her that he was reasonably comfortable and told her, "Sleep well my sweetheart. Please don't worry too much." Shortly thereafter, he died, and his body was found on 23 May by mountaineers from the IMAX expedition.

                                                           Scott Fischer R.I.P

                                                December 24, 1955 – May 11, 1996

Six weeks after returning from a charity climb of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, Fischer left Seattle and travelled to the Himalayan mountains of Nepal. On May 6, the Mountain Madness team left Base Camp (17,500 feet) for their summit climb. At Camp II (21,325 feet, the height of Mount McKinley), Fischer learned that his long-time client and friend, Dale Kruse, was ill below him at Camp I (19,898 feet).

Determined to be the one to tell Kruse that his Everest dreams were over, Fischer descended from Camp II, met up with Kruse and continued to Base Camp with his client. The next morning he left Base Camp and ascended to rejoin his team at Camp II, tired after the 4,000-foot climb. Having missed the additional rest time that the remainder of his team had had at Camp II, he was slow on ascent to Camp III (24,500 feet) the following day. Early in the morning on May 9, more than 50 climbers left Camp III for Camp IV at the South Col (25,938 feet). Scott was among the last of them. Just before midnight they all set out for the summit.

Fischer reached the summit after 3:30 pm, much later than he had planned. He radioed Base Camp that he was weary and felt ill. His good friend and long-time climbing partner, Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa, descended part of the way with him into the blizzard that became known as the 1996 Mount Everest disaster.

They met up again just above the Balcony (27,559 feet), where Fischer encouraged Lopsang to descend without him and send back Anatoli Boukreev, one of the Mountain Madness guides, to help. Suffering from hypoxia and probably cerebral edema as well, Fischer sat down and never got up again. After the storm subsided, on May 11, two Sherpas climbing from Camp IV reached Fischer and Makalu Gau Ming-Ho, leader of the Taiwanese National Expedition.

Fischer was unresponsive and his breathing was shallow. The Sherpas placed an oxygen mask over his face and rescued Gau, whom they carried to Camp IV. After rescuing several other people in the storm, Boukreev finally reached Fischer, but his friend had already died. Boukreev shrouded Fischer’s upper torso and moved his body off the main climbing route. His body remains on the mountain.

                                                       Doug Hansen R.I.P 

                                                 May 28, 1949 -  May 11, 1996

 A client with Adventure Consultants. Hansen is a postal worker who climbed Everest one year before but had to turn back just a few hundred feet from the summit. He and Krakauer become close friends. Hansen is at the summit with Hall when the storm hits on May, 10. Died may 11th on the South Summit from exposure. 

 

                                        Andrew "andy " harris  R.I.P  

                                         29 / 9 / 1964 - 10 / 5/ 1996

Andy Harris, was weakened and acting irrationally from altitude and lack of oxygen. Mr Krakauer thought he had watched him return to camp; in fact, he apparently strayed over a 4,000ft precipice. Died from falling 4,000 ft 

                                                          Dorje Morup R.I.P

                                                  1 October 1948 – May 10, 1996

 was a member of the First Indian team to reach the summit of Mount Everest from the North Col.Morup was one among three Indians who died on the mountain during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. While descending from the summit, Morup was trapped in a blizzard, and died due to exposure. His body remains on the mountain. He is believed by some to be the unidentified climber called "Green Boots" which is used by some as a trail marker

                                                 Yasuko Namba R.I.P

                                      February 2, 1949 - May 11, 1996

On May 10, 1996, the 47-year-old Namba reached the summit of Everest, becoming the oldest woman to do so (her record was later beaten by Anna Czerwińska of Poland who summitted Everest at age 50). She was still high on the mountain rather late into the afternoon, and was descending when a blizzard struck. Namba, fellow client Beck Weathers, and their guide Mike Groom from Adventure Consultants and clients from Scott Fischer's Mountain Madness were stuck on the South Col, while a whiteout prevented them from knowing where the tents lay. Groom later said that Namba insisted on putting her oxygen mask on despite the fact that she had run out of oxygen. Both Namba and Weathers were so weak that the two guides (Groom and Neal Beidleman from Mountain Madness) had to support them. Although the group tried to head to the tents, the guides soon realized it was pointless and dangerous, and waited for a break in the storm.

One of Fischer's guides, Anatoli Boukreev, set out from Camp IV into the night to find the cluster of trapped climbers. After assisting several other people, he came back one last time for Sandy Pittman and Tim Madsen. Madsen, who assumed that Namba was dead and Weathers was a "lost cause," left the two alone. The following day, Stuart Hutchinson, one of the clients on Adventure Consultants, organized a search party to find both Namba and Weathers. Hutchinson found both in such horrible shape – unlikely to live long enough to be carried down to Base Camp – and decided to leave the two alone to save limited resources for the other climbers.

While Weathers somehow survived and walked back to camp, Namba never moved again. She died alone, in the middle of the night, from exhaustion and exposure to the harsh conditions of the mountain. Krakauer's book, Into Thin Air, describes the anguish of Neal Beidleman, who felt guilty that he was unable to do anything more to save Namba. Boukreev's book The Climb expressed profound regret at her lonely death, saying that she was just a little 90-pound woman, and that someone should have dragged her back to camp so she could at least die among her companions. On a later expedition to Everest with the Indonesian National Team, Boukreev found Namba's body on April 28, 1997. He constructed a cairn around her to protect her from scavenging birds, and a few days later apologized to her widower for failing to save Namba's life. Later in 1997, her husband funded an operation that brought her body down the mountain.

                                                               Tsewang Paljor R.I.P

                                                       10 April 1968 – 10 May 1996

was a member of the First Indian team to reach the summit of Mount Everest from the North Col.Tsewang Paljor was one among three Indians who died on the mountain during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. While descending from the summit, he was trapped in a blizzard, and died due to exposure. His body remains on the mountain. He is believed by some to be the unidentified climber called "Green Boots" which is used by some as a trail marker

                                                      Tsewang Samanla R.I.P

                                                 DOB unknown - 10 may 1996

was one among three Indians who died on Mount Everest in 1996 Mount Everest disaster. He was a member of the First Indian team to reach the summit from the North Col. It is believed that Samantha descended later than his companions.While descending from the summit, all three were trapped in a blizzard, and died due to exposure. His body remains on the mountain.