Mountaineering movies
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 12:03 amWhat are some of your favorite Mountaineering Movies? I have not seen very many, just K2, Cliff hanger, Vertical limit, and Touching the Void (which I like the best so far).
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Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 12:03 amPosted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 12:04 amthe sharp end
Montaineering Movies
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 1:00 amThe one I enjoyed the most was THE MOUNTAIN with Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:14 amMy fav: The Eiger Sanction, Clint Eastwood, 1975
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072926/
When I was a kid I was impressed by the climbing scene in James Bond: For Your Eyes Only. For years I thought prussicking should be done with shoe-lace sized cords.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072926/
When I was a kid I was impressed by the climbing scene in James Bond: For Your Eyes Only. For years I thought prussicking should be done with shoe-lace sized cords.
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:58 amOut of the Shadow and into the Sun
http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/92511
One of the earliest films of the Eiger nordwand
El Capitan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Capitan_(film)
A haunting film about an ascent of the nose
http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/92511
One of the earliest films of the Eiger nordwand
El Capitan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Capitan_(film)
A haunting film about an ascent of the nose
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 4:17 amMy Favorite...
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 6:14 amEiger Sanction by all means...
Just watched a movie called Everest (2007) about the '82 Canadian expedition to everest with cameos from Jason Priestley and William Shatner...top notch......for a climbing movie with Jason Prisetley and William Shatner...not to miss.
Just watched a movie called Everest (2007) about the '82 Canadian expedition to everest with cameos from Jason Priestley and William Shatner...top notch......for a climbing movie with Jason Prisetley and William Shatner...not to miss.
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 6:26 amA while back there was this thread about a German movie Nordwand. Has anybody seen it yet in the US?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:05 pmAdd 'Higher Ambitions' to the list.
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:42 pmPablohoney wrote:Just watched a movie called Everest (2007) about the '82 Canadian expedition to everest with cameos from Jason Priestley and William Shatner...top notch......for a climbing movie with Jason Prisetley and William Shatner...not to miss.
This is perhaps the most embarrasingly awful movie about climbing ever made. I particularly enjoyed the sequence of the single yak carrying everyone's equipment up to base camp. It was loaded, if I remember, with 2 boxes. Now that's what I call light and fast. The rest was similar low-budget stuff since most of the money was spent in bringing Shatner in for his cameo in the pub in Kathmandu and anything left over went on paying his bar bill there.
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:52 pmFor an authentic movie about mountainering that doesn't involve superman-like antics a la "K2" that just gives the public the wrong idea of our sport, try "Five Days One Summer"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083947/.
OK there's a bit of soppy romance in there but the climbing sequences are real and the producers made a superb effort to reproduce pre WW2 equipment and techniques as accurately as possible. Well worth a watch.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083947/.
OK there's a bit of soppy romance in there but the climbing sequences are real and the producers made a superb effort to reproduce pre WW2 equipment and techniques as accurately as possible. Well worth a watch.
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:18 pmJoe Simpson's new movie "The Beckoning Silence" partly a re-enactment of the Hinterstosser team's fatal attempt on the N face of the Eiger IS ON YOUTUBE!!
don't start it unless you have time to watch all the way through, it's gripping
ENJOY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmjJBu0xiwc
don't start it unless you have time to watch all the way through, it's gripping
ENJOY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmjJBu0xiwc
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:28 pmBuckaroo wrote:Joe Simpson's new movie "The Beckoning Silence" partly a re-enactment of the Hinterstosser team's fatal attempt on the N face of the Eiger IS ON YOUTUBE!!
don't start it unless you have time to watch all the way through, it's gripping
ENJOY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmjJBu0xiwc
Sweet, I didn't know he made it into a movie!! Hope it comes out on Blu-Ray. I read the book in May.
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:32 pmHandjamMasterC wrote:Nordwand ( North Wall ) is an excellent movie - not only as a mountaineering / climbing movie, it's an excellent well made movie - period.
Agreed. I think it's the best mountaineering movie I've ever seen, although I liked Touching the Void, etc.
By the way, the German translation is "North Face" not "North Wall" (of the Eiger).
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:09 pmThe Eiger Sanction by far
I also bought some movie called touch the top of the world for like 2.50. About the first blind guy to climb Everest. Played by the guy who was Jennifer love Hewitt's ex in can hardly wait and Bruce Campbell plays his dad
I also bought some movie called touch the top of the world for like 2.50. About the first blind guy to climb Everest. Played by the guy who was Jennifer love Hewitt's ex in can hardly wait and Bruce Campbell plays his dad