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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780788814938
ISBN: 0788814931
Label: Miramax
Manufacturer: Miramax
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: IMAX
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 07, 1999
Running Time: 45 minutes
Sales Rank: 4431
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: March 06, 1998
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Description:
Relive a breathtaking journey to the top of the world with EVEREST, the spectacular giant-screen motion picture for IMAX theatres! Filmed during the infamous 1996 storm that claimed eight lives, EVEREST documents the filmmakers' harrowing rescue efforts to help surviving members of the ill-fated group. Join an international team of climbers as they scale the world's tallest peak. Witness the perils of skin-blistering cold, violent blizzards that drop the windchill to minus 100 degrees, and air so thin it numbs the mind. EVEREST will take you across creaking icefalls and gaping chasms, up dangerous, towering cliffs and into the death zone of oxygen-thin altitude. Filmed in spellbinding IMAX photography, 'the most hyperrealistic format yet invented,' says producer Greg MacGillivray. Narrated by Academy Award(R)-nominee Liam Neeson, including the music of George Harrison, EVEREST is a rich, dramatic story -- a daring adventure of triumph and tragedy.
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Filmed in the IMAX format, this film had the luck (or lack thereof) to be shot during the same fateful and fatal climb of Mount Everest chronicled in Jon Krakauer's book, Into Thin Air, in which a group of rich hobby climbers found themselves trapped by a blizzard near the summit. The IMAX film contains footage of those people, but focuses on its own group, as they make their assault on the top of the world's highest peak. Some startling footage of the mountain and theapproaches--and, as in Krakauer's book, the depiction of what is involved inthis kind of adventure (particularly the pain and suffering)--makes you wonder exactly where the fun is. But documentary film is about showing you something you're not likely to see otherwise, and this movie certainly fills the bill. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - how not to photograph climbingmt. everest
this is a MUST NOT buy. the commentary sounds as if it were written by a teenager. the story -too short- spends too little time on the climb and too much on extraneous matters. climbing mt. everest isa horrendously difficult task but this movie makes it appear not too hard. there are a few scenes of climbing and though i accept the photos taken at the summit are real, all the others could have been taken anywhere there was snow and ice. if this is the best these movie makers could do, they should ... Read More
Rating:  - Shortened by the 1996 Disaster
The reason for three stars instead of five is because this DVD is only about 45 minutes in length. I wanted more. There is the possibility that it was cut short in order to assist in saving lives on Mt. Everest during the 1996 Disaster. If I knew that to be the case I would change my rating to 5 stars with no regrets. I would liked to have seen more filming at the different camps along the way to the summit. Excellent filming but way too short in length and information.
Rating: - Great adjunct to Krakauer's "Into Thin Air"
Would have loved to have seen this when it came out in I-Max.Great profile of David Breashears.
Rating: - Overall, a decent documentary
"Everest" has some beautiful shots and is generally of high quality, but it really simplifies the climbers' perspectives in most of the interviews. What is amazing, however, is the interview with one of the climbers who was in one of the groups affected by the storm. He explains what it is like to believe that you are dead, and how he dealt with the amputation of both of his hands (due to frostbite).
It's suitable for a wide range of audiences and the shots are incredible, but not on par ... Read More
Rating:  - Just read "Into Thin Air" or rent/buy "Everest: the Death Zone."
A few reasons why this didn't do much for me:
After reading "Into Thin Air," this seemed kind of superfluous. Krakauer did such a great job of describing everything in his book that I could visualize everything already. This film ended up being just like a slideshow.
The narration (by Neeson and by the climbers) is so trite and insipid that it reminds me of the kind of films they used to show me in grade school science class. Oh--there is an insipid musical score to match the ... Read More
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