With more or less difficulty, the glory is attained by most of the climbers, who had no idea of what would come next. A storm that brings devastating chilly winds and blinding heavy snows, sweeps the mountain when all of them, except two, had initiated the descent. To pump up the anxiety, oxygen bottles are not available anymore and high-altitude pulmonary edema attacks mercilessly, leaving the most fragile freezingly motionless. The drama of the mountaineers’ wives is also a subject of Kormakur’s camera, which seeks the best vertiginous angles to provoke us a few shivers. All the same, “Everest” is more breathtaking than emotionally responsive, failing to mightily step onto the peak of the subgenre where it
With more or less difficulty, the glory is attained by most of the climbers, who had no idea of what would come next. A storm that brings devastating chilly winds and blinding heavy snows, sweeps the mountain when all of them, except two, had initiated the descent. To pump up the anxiety, oxygen bottles are not available anymore and high-altitude pulmonary edema attacks mercilessly, leaving the most fragile freezingly motionless. The drama of the mountaineers’ wives is also a subject of Kormakur’s camera, which seeks the best vertiginous angles to provoke us a few shivers. All the same, “Everest” is more breathtaking than emotionally responsive, failing to mightily step onto the peak of the subgenre where it