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Everest (Large Format)
starring: Liam Neeson
directed by: David Breashears, Stephen Judson, Greg MacGillivray

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
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: 45 minutes
Sales Rank: 2135
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: March 06, 1998

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Everest: Soundtrack From The IMAX Film Experience

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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.

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

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- how not to photograph climbing mt. 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 is a 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 look for another day job.
unfortunately my copy, new, was bothered by a sound track with bad hum and noise, so loud that at times the commentary, thankfully, could not be heard.
this is not recommended for adding to anyone's collection.

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 with Blue Planet or Winged Migration. If you are looking for a quality documentary and do not have specific subject matter in mind, I would recommend them instead.

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