The Summit – Film Review [Released 2012] The Summit is a hybrid documentary that examines the events leading up to, and surrounding, the deadliest day in history on K2. In August 2008, the savage mountain claimed the lives of eleven people. Director and filmmaker Nick Ryan, pieces together the events by including real footage, interviews, and…

180º South, a documentary film about one mans journey, Jeff Johnson, to Patagonia in order to climb the mountain Corcovado and Cerro which was only previously summited by his long time hero Doug Tompkins in the 1960’s who stated when seeking to climb this mountain “We didn’t want to be apart of the military complex”. They believed thoroughly…

Film Review of “The Wildest Dream” Bryant Lymburn For the film review I wanted to explore Mount Everest a explore further into the lives, equipment, and struggles that these early mountaineers faced battling against this great monolith. In doing so I came across the National Geographic film / documentary called “The Wildest Dream.” In this…

“Meru” is adventure and disaster porn at its finest, especially for Bozeman residents. Conrad Anker, a current Bozemanite introduces his twenty year dream to climb the ‘Shark’s Fin’ on Meru, due to this being a dream of his late mentor. This documentary follows the adventure and two expeditions of Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan…

Everest: IMAX is the kind of documentary you would expect to get out of a forty-five minute documentary released in 1998. The movie is pretty straightforward, it follows three climbers that go to Everest with an IMAX film crew. The climbers are Jamling Tenzing Norgay, the son of Tenzing Norgay, Ed Viesturs from the United States, and…

In 1953, bankrupt and decimated post war Britain was in ruins with its empire crumbling. Yet, the Empire would bind together one last time and achieve an incredible feet that may have been thought to be impossible. Britain allowed two men to ascend into the heavens themselves and stand on the highest place in the…

The film Meru tells the story of how Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk make the first ascent of the Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru. Throughout the film Jon Krakauer narrates the climb to be understood for any audience. He also explains the history of the mountain and where the desire of climbing Meru…