Everest
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The urge to get to the summit beyond all reason is called "Summit Fever"
Alyson Addington
2022-08-05 00:02:28 +0000 UTCMcKinley is the American name (now out of use) for Mt. Denali, the highest mountain in North America, located in Alaska A couple of years ago some idiot saw this movie and decided that hey, since it's a tourist thing now, he should totally go. He spent close to 25,000 dollars of unrefundable money on a package, and then went to Reddit to ask what he should do to prepare, as he had no climbing experience and hadn't even set foot on a mountain. Reddit ate him alive and rightly so. My dad went to Everest base camp when he was in China for work, just to get a look at it. He can't stand heights... (he's a PILOT. Go figure) and wasn't completely insane, so he just walked over to the "beginning trek", kicked the mountain, took some pictures and left. He can now legitimately and gleefully say that he has set foot on Mt. Everest. Since 2005 there has been a concentrated effort to clear Everest of the trash people have left behind, with over 200 pounds of oxygen bottles, food containers, human feces, and god only knows what else, removed from Base Camp every season. Jon Krakauer was upset that this movie portrayed him as unwilling to leave his tent to help the others, which he claimed was untrue. (it is undisputed that he never said the line about being put into danger if they left their tents. Though it's the generally accepted truth of the mountains, he never said it aloud, it was Hollywood needing to convey that to the audience) He also criticized Anatoli Boukreev in his book, saying that the Russian climber's choice to summit alone, without oxygen, was irresponsible and he should have stayed with Fisher's clients. Boukreev fired back with his own book, saying that his decision to do that was so that he would be available to assist climbers in descent....and he did, on his own power, go out in white out conditions and single handedly rescue 3 climbers, one at a time. The feud was ongoing until Boukreev was killed the following year on Annapurna, after which Krakauer conceeded in his final statement and said that Boukreev's actions on that night were heroic. On the other hand, Beck Weathers freely admitted that he just as much of an asshole as portrayed in the film, and it was his catharsis to become a better person.
Alyson Addington
2022-08-04 22:49:51 +0000 UTCHere's a longass comment with some facts about the many various ways mountain climbing can and will kill you: While Everest has the highest body count -a little over 300, almost 200 of which are still frozen in place, somewhere on the mountain and visible to the eye...Bruce Herrod, who was killed later that same month, died in such an awkward place that people had to CLIMB OVER HIS BODY the next year. (I know and understand that it is next to impossible to remove bodies the higher one goes on Everest for any number of reasons, but seriously? Couldn't someone at least cut the rope he was dangling on?) - it is not the most dangerous mountain, nor the one with the highest death percentage, or the most difficult to climb. (Which is why just about anyone who can afford it can book a tour, even when they damn well shouldn't.) K2 is easily the most difficult mountain to climb, and the most dangerous. It's 800 shorter than Everest, but located in an extremely remote area, requiring a 12 hour drive from the nearest medical facility to the last occupied village and from there a 10 day hike on foot. If you have an emergency, you're on your own. It's also much, much steeper, often times near or completely vertical, which requires both mountaineering and rock climbing skills. The weather is more unpredictable than Everest's, and since there is nowhere to effectively shelter, can include windspeeds up to 120 miles an hour, TWICE the windspeed it takes to pick up and fling a human being, and more than strong enough to pick up a car. A large percentage of deaths on K2 are due to that. Alison Hargreaves, first woman to solo climb Everest without oxygen, was blown completely off the mountain in 1995, her body was not located until 2019. There are also numerous avalanches of snow or rock, and large chunks of ice will occasionally break off, crushing climber and ripping out anchor ropes. The deadliest accident on K2 happened in August 2008, where 11 people were killed and 3 severely wounded. One man unclipped from a fixed rope and lost his balance, three men were sent up to rescue him, found him already dead, and one became tangled in rope and slid off the side of the path into 5000 feet of open air, a falling ice chunk killed a Norwegian climber and cut all the ropes, leaving climbers stranded in total darkness. A few people tried to continue down without light or ropes, during which one was killed by either personal fall or an avalanche, and 3 more were swept into the rocks and left dangling upside down all night. They were killed either by hitting the rocks, or exposure. There was another ice fall the next morning that hit them directly, as well as the three who stopped to try to help them. The last fatality was hit by an additional falling ice block. K2 is not a tourist destination....while one in 11 climbers will die on Everest, on K2 that percentage is 1 in 4. Annapurna is the 10th highest mountain in the world, and the least climbed because of its unstable nature. 1 in 3 climbers on Annapurna is killed via avalanche, including Anatoil Boukreev, who survived the Everest disaster in 2006.
Alyson Addington
2022-08-04 22:41:05 +0000 UTCI am extremely disappointed this did not include Makalu Gao or his story and glossed over Yasuko Nambla. (sp?) Let alone a single word about the three Nepalese military/or police, I don't remember it's been a while.. who also died, especially one who became the infamous Everest 'landmark' Green Boots.
Alyson Addington
2022-08-04 21:44:05 +0000 UTCand thanks for watching this movie. It shows how beautiful is mount everest(sagarmatha) and dangerous too..Truly cant explain the beautiness and struggles of my country (Nepal) In words …Thanks
Avash sapkota
2022-08-03 06:48:54 +0000 UTCThe pilot of the helicopter was played by nepalese actor/pilot Captain Vijay lama..who is also one of the senior pilot in Nepal airlines. He has his own youtube channel “Vijay lama”….Infact he is celebrity pilot in Nepal.
Avash sapkota
2022-08-03 06:47:09 +0000 UTCThe movie was actually based on a documentary, which for years was Miramax's biggest film for the IMAX theaters, and, as one of the only things playing there in '98, one of their biggest hits, period: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1khEBbx1xbU Why does Hollywood have a neurotic need to remake hit documentaries as narrative studio films? I'm not sure...It seems to bug them when a foreign or documentary that's not a "real" movie becomes a hit.
Eric Janssen
2022-08-02 16:23:22 +0000 UTC
