The Way Back

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Re: The Way Back

by Marmaduke » Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:46 pm

I looked for a S.F.Bay Area opening and wasn't able to find any locations. I even searched L.A. (not that I'm traveling there to see the film) but it must be opening in California somewhere?

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Re: The Way Back

by eza » Fri Jan 14, 2011 6:10 pm

Diego Sahagún wrote:Yesterday I watched the movie. It's a fair film, too many walks in deserts and open spaces without anything more. Even they found the Himalayas just after crossing The Great Wall of China :?


I also noticed that but, well, maybe it's our fault for knowing too much about geography... :wink: Seriously now, I enjoyed the movie. If anything, I would have liked it even better with a little more developement of the characters. Knowing something more about the people in that gulag breakout would make it easier to feel sympathetic with their efforts and sufferings...

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Re: The Way Back

by blazin » Fri Jan 14, 2011 6:39 pm

Marmaduke wrote:I looked for a S.F.Bay Area opening and wasn't able to find any locations. I even searched L.A. (not that I'm traveling there to see the film) but it must be opening in California somewhere?


I've heard it's opening in the US next Friday.

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Re: The Way Back

by Diego Sahagún » Fri Jan 14, 2011 6:47 pm

Didn't it bore you Enrique :?: I bet those long walks in open areas, deserts and mountains occupied almost a third of the movie...
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Re: The Way Back

by MoapaPk » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:22 pm

fatdad wrote:If you also factor in things from other survival stories that we know to be true, we know that people have an amazing capacity for endurance that goes beyond what we estimate when sitting on the sofa reading a book. Any misstatement of fact doesn't render every other fact implausible. But then, if you didn't like the book, that's a whole 'nother can of worms.


I liked the book, bit put it in the category of quasi-fiction when I came across the 13 days in the desert without water.

Really, I've been in the desert a lot; friends say I use much less water than most. I used 1.5 L to go from Phantom Ranch where it was 114F, to the S rim of the GC via Kaibab Trail, in June, and was never thirsty. I used about the same amount for the Shorty's Well to Telescope Peak jaunt, where the accumulated elevation gain is 11500'.

But I have a fairly good feeling for human limits; how heat, exercise, incessant sun, etc. can shrink that supposed 3-day limit on human life without water. I used to run in the summer in Las Vegas, at the heat of the day, and got to see the thin line between life and death... just over the hill.

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Re: The Way Back

by Diego Sahagún » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:31 pm

fatdad wrote:
Gary Schenk wrote:
MoapaPk wrote:If you also factor in things from other survival stories that we know to be true, we know that people have an amazing capacity for endurance that goes beyond what we estimate when sitting on the sofa reading a book.

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Re: The Way Back

by blazin » Tue Jan 25, 2011 3:48 pm

An interesting article about the movie.

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Re: The Way Back

by rhyang » Tue Jan 25, 2011 4:03 pm

It was an interesting book and a great tale. A Polish friend lent it to me while I was recovering from a broken neck in the hospital back in 2007. I'd also suffered a concussion (minor brain trauma), so at the time it was more a matter of working on my short-term memory and cognitive abilities than "is this true or not". Looking forward to seeing it on Netflix sometime :)
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Re: The Way Back

by WouterB » Tue Jan 25, 2011 5:39 pm

Given the commotion about it, I ordered it online and received it today. Will read it on Kili :)

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Re: The Way Back

by Palisades79 » Wed Jan 26, 2011 4:45 pm

Add Felice Benuzzi's "No Picnic on Mount Kenya" (1948) to the list of true POW escape & mountaineering adventures .They broke out ,made the climb ,and than broke back in ! Wikipedia states that there is a film in production.

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Re: The Way Back

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Re: The Way Back

by Diego Sahagún » Thu Jan 27, 2011 12:32 am

blazin wrote:An interesting article about the movie.

Sławomir Rawicz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82awomir_Rawicz

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Re: The Way Back

by Diego Sahagún » Thu Jan 27, 2011 12:34 am

tazz wrote:I am going to watch it. The trailer looks good and has scenes I remember from the book. The line up of actors is good too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jlgenq_Ca0

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1023114/

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Re: The Way Back

by Diego Sahagún » Thu Jan 27, 2011 12:39 am

Diego Sahagún wrote:tazz, read that -> Gliniecki: "I have solid evidence Glinski didn't do The Long Walk":

http://www.explorersweb.com/trek/news.php?id=19856

The Greatest Escape - war hero who walked 4,000 miles from Siberian death camp: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-storie ... -21364916/

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