Streaming Everest: Beyond the Limit Online
Vendredi, avril 23rd, 2010 |
Streaming Everest: Beyond the Limit Online.
Movie Title: Everest: Beyond the Limit Everest: Beyond the Limit is available for streaming or downloading. |
Please note that this review contains spoilers. Don’t read if you don’t want to know the ending.
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First off, let me say that if you’re looking for a series that covers an Everest expedition with careful attention to detail, this is the series for you. Over the course of six episodes, we get to know the individual climbers pretty well. We learn their motivations, their fears, their hopes and the risks they are taking by climbing this mountain. We watch them suffer from exhaustion, oxygen deprivation, frostbite and other serious ailments. By the end of the series, you’ve come to care about these climbers and you feel you have a vested interest in the success of their summit bids.
What’s even more noteworthy is the exceptional job done by the photojournalists who shot the climb — some of whom were sherpas. Using special cameras attached to their headgear (humorously nicknamed “sherpacams” by the production team), the climbers were able to continuously shoot their dangerous trek from the Death Zone to the summit. As someone who has seen a lot of documentaries of Everest, this is some of the most breathtaking footage ever shot of that mountain.
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From the production angle, this documentary gets top marks. Kudos to the Discovery Channel for placing this in our hands.
So why is one star deducted?
It should be noted that this documentary was shot during the 2006 climbing season — one of the deadliest seasons on record, rivaled only by the 1996 climbing season recounted in John Krakauer’s book “Into Thin Air”.
If memory serves, 11 people died in 2006. One of them is David Sharp, a solo climber who collapsed in the Death Zone. Members of the Discovery Channel’s expedition encountered the dying Sharp while making their way down from their summit attempts (there is actually some dispute as to whether they also encountered him on the way up).
To their credit, some of the climbers (like Lebanese climber Max Chaya) attempted to help Sharp. But ultimately Russell Brice — the expedition’s guide who stayed below at Advanced Base Camp — ordered them to leave Sharp to his death. All of this is covered in detail in the final episode, as it happens — even to the extent of including Chaya’s weeping transmissions as he has to leave the climber to die.
Brice’s logic is simple: he doesn’t want to risk the lives of his own clients (who are already frostbitten and on the verge of exhaustion) to save the (at the time) unknown climber.
In retrospect, he was probably right.
All the same, when it’s all said and done, I can’t decide if I like Brice or not. That incident causes you to see the trek to Everest in much different light. Is it really worth it? It would be one thing if you were climbing for the purposes of exploration and discovery…if the trek had never been done before and you were hoping to learn something new. (Like the first lunar landing or a manned mission to Mars.) But why are these guys going? To fly a flag and get their picture taken? Bravado? Vanity?
Leaving Sharp was a tough moral decision…one that’s hard to reconcile. Until I can do that, I’m docking one star.
Oh…and one quick note to the producers: there’s no such word as “disorientated”. Other than that, it’s an excellent documentary.
What a great drama! The suspense, the scenery, the human interest and interaction, the detail….it’s almost like being there. This is a great series. I can’t wait for the second season to come out on DVD.
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