As for the factual inadequacies (12 people died, not 5, no mention of the South African party, Taiwanese barely mentioned) I forgive the producers for trying to slim things down a bit it was a messy disaster.Įven so this has all the hallmarks of a `let's cash in' quick and dirty TV movie it appeared less than 18 months after the incident. A lot of the time I had to rely on my knowledge of the book to work out what was going on. The script is pretty awful and the story more a collection of scenes than a coherent narrative. On the other hand Chris McDonald as Krakauer relies overmuch on his single facial expression of worried concern. The acting is at least professional Nat Parker as guide Rob Hall is quite convincing, though his NZ accent switches to London Cockney at times, and Peter Horton does a good impression of the ebullient American guide Scott Fisher. Shot in Austria, it does not even have the actual Himalayan scenery of the Everest Imax film which was shot in the same calamitous 1996 climbing season. This film, derived from the book, is a very thin account. I thought Jon Krakauer's book on the 1996 Everest climbing disaster, while not great literature and while a rather subjective and partial account, was well-observed and reasonably absorbing.
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