Everest (Large Format)
starring: Liam Neeson, Lhakpa Dorji, Dorje Sherpa, Ed Viesturs, Muktu Lhakpa Sherpa
directed by: David Breashears, Greg MacGillivray, Stephen Judson
directed by: David Breashears, Greg MacGillivray, Stephen Judson
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Everest
EAN: 9780788814938
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, NTSC
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: 44 minutes
Sales Rank: 5348
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: March 06, 1998
Accessories: Related Items:
- National Geographic - Everest 50 Years on the Mountain
- NOVA - Everest: The Death Zone
- Into Thin Air: Death on Everest
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
- Touching the Void
- see more
Editorial Review:
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.
Amazon.com essential video:
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 the approaches--and, as in Krakauer's book, the depiction of what is involved in this 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
Average Rating: 
Rating:
- Grab this one! The "45 minutes" doesn't consider the many bonus extras! Grab this DVD! If you're one of those who sees a run time of "45 minutes" and that tends to keep you ... Read More
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- Bafflingly dull -- how was this possible?After reading "Into Thin Air" and "The Climb" and a dozen or more online articles, I remember having ... Read More
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- how not to photograph climbing mt. everestthis is a MUST NOT buy. the commentary sounds as if it were written by a teenager. the story -too short ... Read More
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- Shortened by the 1996 DisasterThe reason for three stars instead of five is because this DVD is only about 45 minutes in length. I wanted ... Read More
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- 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.
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