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Calculated Shard: 97 (from laksa101)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa097.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/everest-2015\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/everest-2015\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/everest-2015","crawl_time":1775598988,"first_indexed_time":1462166545,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,rogerebert!www,\/reviews\/everest-2015 s443","src_root_hash":"7554834309041482497","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Everest movie review & film summary review:","meta_descriptions":["In spite of the excellent technical work and the efforts of a first-rate cast, Everest does not exhilarate or scare viewers so much as leave them flatly sad."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"“Never Let Go” is the tagline on posters for this movie, \nbased on the true story of an exceedingly ill-fated trek up the title mountain in 1996. “What The Hell Are You All Doing Up There In The First \nPlace?” might be a more apropos. The transformation of massively risky mountain-climbing, as an \nactivity exclusively for scientists and highly-trained explorers to an \nadventure-tourism endurance test for the rich and obsessive, gets taken care of \nhere in a series of three title texts at the beginning of the movie, starting \nwith the ostensible conquest of Mount Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary’s team. Beginning with some tantalizing\/troubling glimpses of the heedless and colonialist aspects of adventure tourism culture, “Everest” then gets down to business. This movie, scripted by\nWilliam Nicholson\nand\nSimon Beaufoy\nand directed, with meticulous regard for the elements and action, by Iceland-born filmmaker\nBaltasar Kormákur\n, is a detailed and realistic depiction of climbers—of various experiences—facing the worst possible conditions, at heights and climates that seem designed to shut a human body down. \nJason Clarke\n’s Rob Hall is an experienced climber and the \nhead of a company called Adventure Consulting. He’s a good-hearted bloke who’s \ngot a devoted team and a relatively diverse clientele. The climbers putting out \nbig bucks (or, in some cases, as it happens not; Hall, we learn at one point, \nis even more good-hearted than he appears) for a spring jaunt up Everest \ninclude cocky Texas businessman Beck Weathers (\nJosh Brolin\n),  good-natured workingman Doug Hansen, and very \ngame Yasuko Namba (\nNaoko Mori\n) a petite powerhouse who’s topped six of the \nso-called Seven Summits and now wants Nepal’s Everest, the highest of the \nbunch. The conditions at base camp are hectic and slightly tense. A star \njournalist,\nJon Krakauer\n, is part of Hall’s expedition, which has aroused the \nenvy of a Hall’s pal Scott who’s now a rival climb organizer (played\nJake Gyllenhaal\n, \nportraying the more hippie-ish side of the climbing gestalt). There are \nscheduling issues and various manifestations of pissiness between the teams \nthat go up the mountains and prep climbing tools for their clients. Clearly, \nthere’s a lot that can go wrong. Particularly if the weather turns bad.\nThere’s a resemblance here to both the story and the movie \nadaptation of the story told in “\nThe Perfect Storm\n.” The characters involved \nare making a good faith effort—but good faith efforts by humans can only go so \nfar. “\nNature always has the last word,\n” one character observes early on. As the \nmovie expertly depicts freezing conditions, approaching and full-blown storms, \nmini-avalanches hitting at just the wrong place and just the wrong time, and \nmore, the movie provides an object lesson with respect to that adage.\nAs much as “Everest” trades in a kind of authenticity, it \nalso trucks in the most banal of disaster movie clichés; for instance, one of \nthe principal characters in the trek is leaving behind a pregnant wife. While \nthis part of the story is as true as any other, the dialogue between the \ncharacters at the outset: “\nYou better be back for the birth, [Full Character \nName]\n;” “\nYou try and stop me,\n” practically screeches to the audience, “Start \nworrying about this guy NOW.”\nWhat it all amounts to, finally, is an excruciating and \ndispiriting simulated recreation of excruciating and dispiriting real life \nevents. While leaving the theater, I overheard several sets of people \ndiscussing the various actions some of the characters took and what they, the \nviewers, might have done in their stead. This occasioned some slight despair \non my part. “\nYou can’t stop what’s coming,\n” as someone once said in another movie \nstarring Josh Brolin, and I rather doubt that the filmmakers’ aim in making \nthis picture was to excite the vanity of its audience. The point, as far as I \nunderstand it, isn’t “\nYou could live if you did things differently than X\n” but \nrather that even the best-prepared are not really prepared.\nNot that I’ve ever been a “What’s the point?” kind of person \nin my aesthetic enthusiasms. But in spite of the excellent technical work and \nthe efforts of a first-rate cast, “Everest” did not exhilarate or scare me as \nmuch as leave me flatly sad. A real-life footage coda to the movie suggests \nthat the participants signed off on this portrayal, and in a sense it’s an apt \nand sensitive tribute. A good many accounts of the 1996 events have been told \nin book and movie form—Krakauer’s own highly-regarded book “Into Thin Air,” \nBeck Weathers’ memoir, and more. I myself worked on a piece for Premiere \nmagazine focusing on the event from the perspective of David Breashears, who \nmade the IMAX film “Everest” (1998) and who appears as a minor character here. I’ve \nnot read Krakauer’s book, but perhaps I should. Coming out of this \nmovie, the story remained upsettingly senseless to me, and an inapt one for a \nmovie that. Despite its attempts at empathy, “Everest” often plays the cinematic thrill \nride card. ","attrs_markdown":"[![Roger Ebert Logo](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/wp-content\/themes\/roger-ebert\/source\/images\/roger-ebert-logo.svg)](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/)   [![Search Icon](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/wp-content\/themes\/roger-ebert\/source\/images\/search-thin.svg)](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/search)   [Signup](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/prime)\n\n- [Movie Reviews](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews)\n- [Great Movies](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/great-movies)\n- [TV\/Streaming](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/streaming)\n- [Interviews](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/interviews)\n- [Collections](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/collections)\n- [Festivals & Awards](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/festivals-and-awards)\n- [Contributors](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/contributors)\n\n[Reviews](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews)\n\n# Everest\n![star rating](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/wp-content\/themes\/roger-ebert\/source\/images\/stars-fill.svg) ![star rating](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/wp-content\/themes\/roger-ebert\/source\/images\/stars.svg)\n\n[Drama](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/genre\/drama)\n\n121 minutes  ‧ PG-13  ‧ 2015\n\n[Glenn Kenny](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/contributors\/glenn-kenny)\n\nSeptember 18, 2015\n\n4 min read\n\n![](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Everest.jpg)\n\n“Never Let Go” is the tagline on posters for this movie, based on the true story of an exceedingly ill-fated trek up the title mountain in 1996. “What The Hell Are You All Doing Up There In The First Place?” might be a more apropos. The transformation of massively risky mountain-climbing, as an activity exclusively for scientists and highly-trained explorers to an adventure-tourism endurance test for the rich and obsessive, gets taken care of here in a series of three title texts at the beginning of the movie, starting with the ostensible conquest of Mount Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary’s team. Beginning with some tantalizing\/troubling glimpses of the heedless and colonialist aspects of adventure tourism culture, “Everest” then gets down to business. This movie, scripted by [William Nicholson](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/william-nicholson) and [Simon Beaufoy](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/simon-beaufoy) and directed, with meticulous regard for the elements and action, by Iceland-born filmmaker [Baltasar Kormákur](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/baltasar-korm%C3%A1kur), is a detailed and realistic depiction of climbers—of various experiences—facing the worst possible conditions, at heights and climates that seem designed to shut a human body down.\n\n[Jason Clarke](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/jason-clarke)’s Rob Hall is an experienced climber and the head of a company called Adventure Consulting. He’s a good-hearted bloke who’s got a devoted team and a relatively diverse clientele. The climbers putting out big bucks (or, in some cases, as it happens not; Hall, we learn at one point, is even more good-hearted than he appears) for a spring jaunt up Everest include cocky Texas businessman Beck Weathers ([Josh Brolin](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/josh-brolin)), good-natured workingman Doug Hansen, and very game Yasuko Namba ([Naoko Mori](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/naoko-mori)) a petite powerhouse who’s topped six of the so-called Seven Summits and now wants Nepal’s Everest, the highest of the bunch. The conditions at base camp are hectic and slightly tense. A star journalist, [Jon Krakauer](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/jon-krakauer), is part of Hall’s expedition, which has aroused the envy of a Hall’s pal Scott who’s now a rival climb organizer (played [Jake Gyllenhaal](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/jake-gyllenhaal), portraying the more hippie-ish side of the climbing gestalt). There are scheduling issues and various manifestations of pissiness between the teams that go up the mountains and prep climbing tools for their clients. Clearly, there’s a lot that can go wrong. Particularly if the weather turns bad.\n\nThere’s a resemblance here to both the story and the movie adaptation of the story told in “[The Perfect Storm](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/the-perfect-storm-2000).” The characters involved are making a good faith effort—but good faith efforts by humans can only go so far. “*Nature always has the last word,*” one character observes early on. As the movie expertly depicts freezing conditions, approaching and full-blown storms, mini-avalanches hitting at just the wrong place and just the wrong time, and more, the movie provides an object lesson with respect to that adage.\n\nAs much as “Everest” trades in a kind of authenticity, it also trucks in the most banal of disaster movie clichés; for instance, one of the principal characters in the trek is leaving behind a pregnant wife. While this part of the story is as true as any other, the dialogue between the characters at the outset: “*You better be back for the birth, \\[Full Character Name\\]*;” “*You try and stop me,*” practically screeches to the audience, “Start worrying about this guy NOW.”\n\nWhat it all amounts to, finally, is an excruciating and dispiriting simulated recreation of excruciating and dispiriting real life events. While leaving the theater, I overheard several sets of people discussing the various actions some of the characters took and what they, the viewers, might have done in their stead. This occasioned some slight despair on my part. “*You can’t stop what’s coming,*” as someone once said in another movie starring Josh Brolin, and I rather doubt that the filmmakers’ aim in making this picture was to excite the vanity of its audience. The point, as far as I understand it, isn’t “*You could live if you did things differently than X*” but rather that even the best-prepared are not really prepared.\n\nNot that I’ve ever been a “What’s the point?” kind of person in my aesthetic enthusiasms. But in spite of the excellent technical work and the efforts of a first-rate cast, “Everest” did not exhilarate or scare me as much as leave me flatly sad. A real-life footage coda to the movie suggests that the participants signed off on this portrayal, and in a sense it’s an apt and sensitive tribute. A good many accounts of the 1996 events have been told in book and movie form—Krakauer’s own highly-regarded book “Into Thin Air,” Beck Weathers’ memoir, and more. I myself worked on a piece for Premiere magazine focusing on the event from the perspective of David Breashears, who made the IMAX film “Everest” (1998) and who appears as a minor character here. I’ve not read Krakauer’s book, but perhaps I should. Coming out of this movie, the story remained upsettingly senseless to me, and an inapt one for a movie that. Despite its attempts at empathy, “Everest” often plays the cinematic thrill ride card.\n\nNow streaming on:\n\n[Powered by ![JustWatch](https:\/\/widget.justwatch.com\/assets\/JW_logo_black_10px.svg)](https:\/\/www.justwatch.com\/)\n\n[Tweet](https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Everest&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rogerebert.com%2Freviews%2Feverest-2015)\n\n[Share](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rogerebert.com%2Freviews%2Feverest-2015)\n\n[Share](https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/cws\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rogerebert.com%2Freviews%2Feverest-2015)\n\n[Pin](https:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rogerebert.com%2Freviews%2Feverest-2015)\n\n![](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Glenn-Kenny.jpg)\n\n##### [Glenn Kenny](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/contributors\/glenn-kenny)\nGlenn Kenny was the chief film critic of Premiere magazine for almost half of its existence. He has written for a host of other publications and resides in Brooklyn. Read his answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire [here](http:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/balder-and-dash\/meet-the-writers-glenn-kenny).\n\n#### Everest\n[Drama](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/genre\/drama)\n\n![star rating](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/wp-content\/themes\/roger-ebert\/source\/images\/stars-fill.svg) ![star rating](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/wp-content\/themes\/roger-ebert\/source\/images\/stars.svg)\n\n121 minutes  ‧ PG-13  ‧ 2015\n\n![](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Everest-jpg.webp)\n\n#### Cast\n- [Robin Wright](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/robin-wright) as Peach Weathers\n- [Keira Knightley](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/keira-knightley) as Jan Hall\n- [Sam Worthington](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/sam-worthington) as Guy Cotter\n- [Jason Clarke](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/jason-clarke) as Rob Hall\n- [Clive Standen](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/clive-standen) as Ed Viesturs\n- [Josh Brolin](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/josh-brolin) as Beck Weathers\n- [Emily Watson](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/emily-watson) as Helen Wilton\n- [Jake Gyllenhaal](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/jake-gyllenhaal) as Scott Fischer\n- [John Hawkes](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/john-hawkes) as Doug Hansen\n\n- #### Director\n  - [Baltasar Kormákur](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/baltasar-kormakur-2)\n- #### Screenplay\n  - [Justin Isbell](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/justin-isbell)\n  - [Mark Medoff](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/mark-medoff)\n  - [Simon Beaufoy](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/simon-beaufoy)\n\n#### Leave a comment\nPlease enable JavaScript to view the  [comments powered by Disqus.](https:\/\/disqus.com\/?ref_noscript)\n\n***\n#### Now playing\n[![Pizza 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The transformation of massively risky mountain-climbing, as an activity exclusively for scientists and highly-trained explorers to an adventure-tourism endurance test for the rich and obsessive, gets taken care of here in a series of three title texts at the beginning of the movie, starting with the ostensible conquest of Mount Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary’s team. Beginning with some tantalizing\/troubling glimpses of the heedless and colonialist aspects of adventure tourism culture, “Everest” then gets down to business. This movie, scripted by [William Nicholson](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/william-nicholson) and [Simon Beaufoy](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/simon-beaufoy) and directed, with meticulous regard for the elements and action, by Iceland-born filmmaker [Baltasar Kormákur](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/baltasar-korm%C3%A1kur), is a detailed and realistic depiction of climbers—of various experiences—facing the worst possible conditions, at heights and climates that seem designed to shut a human body down.\n\n[Jason Clarke](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/jason-clarke)’s Rob Hall is an experienced climber and the head of a company called Adventure Consulting. He’s a good-hearted bloke who’s got a devoted team and a relatively diverse clientele. The climbers putting out big bucks (or, in some cases, as it happens not; Hall, we learn at one point, is even more good-hearted than he appears) for a spring jaunt up Everest include cocky Texas businessman Beck Weathers ([Josh Brolin](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/josh-brolin)), good-natured workingman Doug Hansen, and very game Yasuko Namba ([Naoko Mori](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/naoko-mori)) a petite powerhouse who’s topped six of the so-called Seven Summits and now wants Nepal’s Everest, the highest of the bunch. The conditions at base camp are hectic and slightly tense. A star journalist, [Jon Krakauer](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/jon-krakauer), is part of Hall’s expedition, which has aroused the envy of a Hall’s pal Scott who’s now a rival climb organizer (played [Jake Gyllenhaal](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/cast-and-crew\/jake-gyllenhaal), portraying the more hippie-ish side of the climbing gestalt). There are scheduling issues and various manifestations of pissiness between the teams that go up the mountains and prep climbing tools for their clients. Clearly, there’s a lot that can go wrong. Particularly if the weather turns bad.\n\nThere’s a resemblance here to both the story and the movie adaptation of the story told in “[The Perfect Storm](https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/the-perfect-storm-2000).” The characters involved are making a good faith effort—but good faith efforts by humans can only go so far. “*Nature always has the last word,*” one character observes early on. As the movie expertly depicts freezing conditions, approaching and full-blown storms, mini-avalanches hitting at just the wrong place and just the wrong time, and more, the movie provides an object lesson with respect to that adage.\n\nAs much as “Everest” trades in a kind of authenticity, it also trucks in the most banal of disaster movie clichés; for instance, one of the principal characters in the trek is leaving behind a pregnant wife. While this part of the story is as true as any other, the dialogue between the characters at the outset: “*You better be back for the birth, \\[Full Character Name\\]*;” “*You try and stop me,*” practically screeches to the audience, “Start worrying about this guy NOW.”\n\nWhat it all amounts to, finally, is an excruciating and dispiriting simulated recreation of excruciating and dispiriting real life events. While leaving the theater, I overheard several sets of people discussing the various actions some of the characters took and what they, the viewers, might have done in their stead. This occasioned some slight despair on my part. “*You can’t stop what’s coming,*” as someone once said in another movie starring Josh Brolin, and I rather doubt that the filmmakers’ aim in making this picture was to excite the vanity of its audience. The point, as far as I understand it, isn’t “*You could live if you did things differently than X*” but rather that even the best-prepared are not really prepared.\n\nNot that I’ve ever been a “What’s the point?” kind of person in my aesthetic enthusiasms. But in spite of the excellent technical work and the efforts of a first-rate cast, “Everest” did not exhilarate or scare me as much as leave me flatly sad. A real-life footage coda to the movie suggests that the participants signed off on this portrayal, and in a sense it’s an apt and sensitive tribute. A good many accounts of the 1996 events have been told in book and movie form—Krakauer’s own highly-regarded book “Into Thin Air,” Beck Weathers’ memoir, and more. I myself worked on a piece for Premiere magazine focusing on the event from the perspective of David Breashears, who made the IMAX film “Everest” (1998) and who appears as a minor character here. I’ve not read Krakauer’s book, but perhaps I should. Coming out of this movie, the story remained upsettingly senseless to me, and an inapt one for a movie that. Despite its attempts at empathy, “Everest” often plays the cinematic thrill ride card.","meta_canonical":null}

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Boilerpipe Text	“Never Let Go” is the tagline on posters for this movie, based on the true story of an exceedingly ill-fated trek up the title mountain in 1996. “What The Hell Are You All Doing Up There In The First Place?” might be a more apropos. The transformation of massively risky mountain-climbing, as an activity exclusively for scientists and highly-trained explorers to an adventure-tourism endurance test for the rich and obsessive, gets taken care of here in a series of three title texts at the beginning of the movie, starting with the ostensible conquest of Mount Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary’s team. Beginning with some tantalizing/troubling glimpses of the heedless and colonialist aspects of adventure tourism culture, “Everest” then gets down to business. This movie, scripted by William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy and directed, with meticulous regard for the elements and action, by Iceland-born filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur , is a detailed and realistic depiction of climbers—of various experiences—facing the worst possible conditions, at heights and climates that seem designed to shut a human body down. Jason Clarke ’s Rob Hall is an experienced climber and the head of a company called Adventure Consulting. He’s a good-hearted bloke who’s got a devoted team and a relatively diverse clientele. The climbers putting out big bucks (or, in some cases, as it happens not; Hall, we learn at one point, is even more good-hearted than he appears) for a spring jaunt up Everest include cocky Texas businessman Beck Weathers ( Josh Brolin ), good-natured workingman Doug Hansen, and very game Yasuko Namba ( Naoko Mori ) a petite powerhouse who’s topped six of the so-called Seven Summits and now wants Nepal’s Everest, the highest of the bunch. The conditions at base camp are hectic and slightly tense. A star journalist, Jon Krakauer , is part of Hall’s expedition, which has aroused the envy of a Hall’s pal Scott who’s now a rival climb organizer (played Jake Gyllenhaal , portraying the more hippie-ish side of the climbing gestalt). There are scheduling issues and various manifestations of pissiness between the teams that go up the mountains and prep climbing tools for their clients. Clearly, there’s a lot that can go wrong. Particularly if the weather turns bad. There’s a resemblance here to both the story and the movie adaptation of the story told in “ The Perfect Storm .” The characters involved are making a good faith effort—but good faith efforts by humans can only go so far. “ Nature always has the last word, ” one character observes early on. As the movie expertly depicts freezing conditions, approaching and full-blown storms, mini-avalanches hitting at just the wrong place and just the wrong time, and more, the movie provides an object lesson with respect to that adage. As much as “Everest” trades in a kind of authenticity, it also trucks in the most banal of disaster movie clichés; for instance, one of the principal characters in the trek is leaving behind a pregnant wife. While this part of the story is as true as any other, the dialogue between the characters at the outset: “ You better be back for the birth, [Full Character Name] ;” “ You try and stop me, ” practically screeches to the audience, “Start worrying about this guy NOW.” What it all amounts to, finally, is an excruciating and dispiriting simulated recreation of excruciating and dispiriting real life events. While leaving the theater, I overheard several sets of people discussing the various actions some of the characters took and what they, the viewers, might have done in their stead. This occasioned some slight despair on my part. “ You can’t stop what’s coming, ” as someone once said in another movie starring Josh Brolin, and I rather doubt that the filmmakers’ aim in making this picture was to excite the vanity of its audience. The point, as far as I understand it, isn’t “ You could live if you did things differently than X ” but rather that even the best-prepared are not really prepared. Not that I’ve ever been a “What’s the point?” kind of person in my aesthetic enthusiasms. But in spite of the excellent technical work and the efforts of a first-rate cast, “Everest” did not exhilarate or scare me as much as leave me flatly sad. A real-life footage coda to the movie suggests that the participants signed off on this portrayal, and in a sense it’s an apt and sensitive tribute. A good many accounts of the 1996 events have been told in book and movie form—Krakauer’s own highly-regarded book “Into Thin Air,” Beck Weathers’ memoir, and more. I myself worked on a piece for Premiere magazine focusing on the event from the perspective of David Breashears, who made the IMAX film “Everest” (1998) and who appears as a minor character here. I’ve not read Krakauer’s book, but perhaps I should. Coming out of this movie, the story remained upsettingly senseless to me, and an inapt one for a movie that. Despite its attempts at empathy, “Everest” often plays the cinematic thrill ride card.
Markdown	[![Roger Ebert Logo](https://www.rogerebert.com/wp-content/themes/roger-ebert/source/images/roger-ebert-logo.svg)](https://www.rogerebert.com/) [![Search Icon](https://www.rogerebert.com/wp-content/themes/roger-ebert/source/images/search-thin.svg)](https://www.rogerebert.com/search) [Signup](https://www.rogerebert.com/prime) - [Movie Reviews](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews) - [Great Movies](https://www.rogerebert.com/great-movies) - [TV/Streaming](https://www.rogerebert.com/streaming) - [Interviews](https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews) - [Collections](https://www.rogerebert.com/collections) - [Festivals & Awards](https://www.rogerebert.com/festivals-and-awards) - [Contributors](https://www.rogerebert.com/contributors) [Reviews](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews) # Everest ![star rating](https://www.rogerebert.com/wp-content/themes/roger-ebert/source/images/stars-fill.svg) ![star rating](https://www.rogerebert.com/wp-content/themes/roger-ebert/source/images/stars.svg) [Drama](https://www.rogerebert.com/genre/drama) 121 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 2015 [Glenn Kenny](https://www.rogerebert.com/contributors/glenn-kenny) September 18, 2015 4 min read ![](https://www.rogerebert.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Everest.jpg) “Never Let Go” is the tagline on posters for this movie, based on the true story of an exceedingly ill-fated trek up the title mountain in 1996. “What The Hell Are You All Doing Up There In The First Place?” might be a more apropos. The transformation of massively risky mountain-climbing, as an activity exclusively for scientists and highly-trained explorers to an adventure-tourism endurance test for the rich and obsessive, gets taken care of here in a series of three title texts at the beginning of the movie, starting with the ostensible conquest of Mount Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary’s team. Beginning with some tantalizing/troubling glimpses of the heedless and colonialist aspects of adventure tourism culture, “Everest” then gets down to business. This movie, scripted by [William Nicholson](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/william-nicholson) and [Simon Beaufoy](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/simon-beaufoy) and directed, with meticulous regard for the elements and action, by Iceland-born filmmaker [Baltasar Kormákur](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/baltasar-korm%C3%A1kur), is a detailed and realistic depiction of climbers—of various experiences—facing the worst possible conditions, at heights and climates that seem designed to shut a human body down. [Jason Clarke](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/jason-clarke)’s Rob Hall is an experienced climber and the head of a company called Adventure Consulting. He’s a good-hearted bloke who’s got a devoted team and a relatively diverse clientele. The climbers putting out big bucks (or, in some cases, as it happens not; Hall, we learn at one point, is even more good-hearted than he appears) for a spring jaunt up Everest include cocky Texas businessman Beck Weathers ([Josh Brolin](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/josh-brolin)), good-natured workingman Doug Hansen, and very game Yasuko Namba ([Naoko Mori](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/naoko-mori)) a petite powerhouse who’s topped six of the so-called Seven Summits and now wants Nepal’s Everest, the highest of the bunch. The conditions at base camp are hectic and slightly tense. A star journalist, [Jon Krakauer](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/jon-krakauer), is part of Hall’s expedition, which has aroused the envy of a Hall’s pal Scott who’s now a rival climb organizer (played [Jake Gyllenhaal](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/jake-gyllenhaal), portraying the more hippie-ish side of the climbing gestalt). There are scheduling issues and various manifestations of pissiness between the teams that go up the mountains and prep climbing tools for their clients. Clearly, there’s a lot that can go wrong. Particularly if the weather turns bad. There’s a resemblance here to both the story and the movie adaptation of the story told in “[The Perfect Storm](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-perfect-storm-2000).” The characters involved are making a good faith effort—but good faith efforts by humans can only go so far. “Nature always has the last word,” one character observes early on. As the movie expertly depicts freezing conditions, approaching and full-blown storms, mini-avalanches hitting at just the wrong place and just the wrong time, and more, the movie provides an object lesson with respect to that adage. As much as “Everest” trades in a kind of authenticity, it also trucks in the most banal of disaster movie clichés; for instance, one of the principal characters in the trek is leaving behind a pregnant wife. While this part of the story is as true as any other, the dialogue between the characters at the outset: “You better be back for the birth, \[Full Character Name\];” “You try and stop me,” practically screeches to the audience, “Start worrying about this guy NOW.” What it all amounts to, finally, is an excruciating and dispiriting simulated recreation of excruciating and dispiriting real life events. While leaving the theater, I overheard several sets of people discussing the various actions some of the characters took and what they, the viewers, might have done in their stead. This occasioned some slight despair on my part. “You can’t stop what’s coming,” as someone once said in another movie starring Josh Brolin, and I rather doubt that the filmmakers’ aim in making this picture was to excite the vanity of its audience. The point, as far as I understand it, isn’t “You could live if you did things differently than X” but rather that even the best-prepared are not really prepared. Not that I’ve ever been a “What’s the point?” kind of person in my aesthetic enthusiasms. But in spite of the excellent technical work and the efforts of a first-rate cast, “Everest” did not exhilarate or scare me as much as leave me flatly sad. A real-life footage coda to the movie suggests that the participants signed off on this portrayal, and in a sense it’s an apt and sensitive tribute. A good many accounts of the 1996 events have been told in book and movie form—Krakauer’s own highly-regarded book “Into Thin Air,” Beck Weathers’ memoir, and more. I myself worked on a piece for Premiere magazine focusing on the event from the perspective of David Breashears, who made the IMAX film “Everest” (1998) and who appears as a minor character here. I’ve not read Krakauer’s book, but perhaps I should. Coming out of this movie, the story remained upsettingly senseless to me, and an inapt one for a movie that. Despite its attempts at empathy, “Everest” often plays the cinematic thrill ride card. Now streaming on: [Powered by ![JustWatch](https://widget.justwatch.com/assets/JW_logo_black_10px.svg)](https://www.justwatch.com/) [Tweet](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Everest&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rogerebert.com%2Freviews%2Feverest-2015) [Share](https://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rogerebert.com%2Freviews%2Feverest-2015) [Share](https://www.linkedin.com/cws/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rogerebert.com%2Freviews%2Feverest-2015) [Pin](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rogerebert.com%2Freviews%2Feverest-2015) ![](https://www.rogerebert.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Glenn-Kenny.jpg) ##### [Glenn Kenny](https://www.rogerebert.com/contributors/glenn-kenny) Glenn Kenny was the chief film critic of Premiere magazine for almost half of its existence. He has written for a host of other publications and resides in Brooklyn. Read his answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire [here](http://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/meet-the-writers-glenn-kenny). #### Everest [Drama](https://www.rogerebert.com/genre/drama) ![star rating](https://www.rogerebert.com/wp-content/themes/roger-ebert/source/images/stars-fill.svg) ![star rating](https://www.rogerebert.com/wp-content/themes/roger-ebert/source/images/stars.svg) 121 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 2015 ![](https://www.rogerebert.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Everest-jpg.webp) #### Cast - [Robin Wright](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/robin-wright) as Peach Weathers - [Keira Knightley](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/keira-knightley) as Jan Hall - [Sam Worthington](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/sam-worthington) as Guy Cotter - [Jason Clarke](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/jason-clarke) as Rob Hall - [Clive Standen](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/clive-standen) as Ed Viesturs - [Josh Brolin](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/josh-brolin) as Beck Weathers - [Emily Watson](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/emily-watson) as Helen Wilton - [Jake Gyllenhaal](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/jake-gyllenhaal) as Scott Fischer - [John Hawkes](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/john-hawkes) as Doug Hansen - #### Director - [Baltasar Kormákur](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/baltasar-kormakur-2) - #### Screenplay - [Justin Isbell](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/justin-isbell) - [Mark Medoff](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/mark-medoff) - [Simon Beaufoy](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/simon-beaufoy) #### Leave a comment Please enable JavaScript to view the [comments powered by Disqus.](https://disqus.com/?ref_noscript) * #### Now playing [![Pizza Movie](https://www.rogerebert.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Pizza-Movie-2026-256x107.jpg) Pizza Movie Zachary Lee ![star 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Readable Markdown	“Never Let Go” is the tagline on posters for this movie, based on the true story of an exceedingly ill-fated trek up the title mountain in 1996. “What The Hell Are You All Doing Up There In The First Place?” might be a more apropos. The transformation of massively risky mountain-climbing, as an activity exclusively for scientists and highly-trained explorers to an adventure-tourism endurance test for the rich and obsessive, gets taken care of here in a series of three title texts at the beginning of the movie, starting with the ostensible conquest of Mount Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary’s team. Beginning with some tantalizing/troubling glimpses of the heedless and colonialist aspects of adventure tourism culture, “Everest” then gets down to business. This movie, scripted by [William Nicholson](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/william-nicholson) and [Simon Beaufoy](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/simon-beaufoy) and directed, with meticulous regard for the elements and action, by Iceland-born filmmaker [Baltasar Kormákur](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/baltasar-korm%C3%A1kur), is a detailed and realistic depiction of climbers—of various experiences—facing the worst possible conditions, at heights and climates that seem designed to shut a human body down. [Jason Clarke](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/jason-clarke)’s Rob Hall is an experienced climber and the head of a company called Adventure Consulting. He’s a good-hearted bloke who’s got a devoted team and a relatively diverse clientele. The climbers putting out big bucks (or, in some cases, as it happens not; Hall, we learn at one point, is even more good-hearted than he appears) for a spring jaunt up Everest include cocky Texas businessman Beck Weathers ([Josh Brolin](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/josh-brolin)), good-natured workingman Doug Hansen, and very game Yasuko Namba ([Naoko Mori](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/naoko-mori)) a petite powerhouse who’s topped six of the so-called Seven Summits and now wants Nepal’s Everest, the highest of the bunch. The conditions at base camp are hectic and slightly tense. A star journalist, [Jon Krakauer](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/jon-krakauer), is part of Hall’s expedition, which has aroused the envy of a Hall’s pal Scott who’s now a rival climb organizer (played [Jake Gyllenhaal](https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/jake-gyllenhaal), portraying the more hippie-ish side of the climbing gestalt). There are scheduling issues and various manifestations of pissiness between the teams that go up the mountains and prep climbing tools for their clients. Clearly, there’s a lot that can go wrong. Particularly if the weather turns bad. There’s a resemblance here to both the story and the movie adaptation of the story told in “[The Perfect Storm](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-perfect-storm-2000).” The characters involved are making a good faith effort—but good faith efforts by humans can only go so far. “Nature always has the last word,” one character observes early on. As the movie expertly depicts freezing conditions, approaching and full-blown storms, mini-avalanches hitting at just the wrong place and just the wrong time, and more, the movie provides an object lesson with respect to that adage. As much as “Everest” trades in a kind of authenticity, it also trucks in the most banal of disaster movie clichés; for instance, one of the principal characters in the trek is leaving behind a pregnant wife. While this part of the story is as true as any other, the dialogue between the characters at the outset: “You better be back for the birth, \[Full Character Name\];” “You try and stop me,” practically screeches to the audience, “Start worrying about this guy NOW.” What it all amounts to, finally, is an excruciating and dispiriting simulated recreation of excruciating and dispiriting real life events. While leaving the theater, I overheard several sets of people discussing the various actions some of the characters took and what they, the viewers, might have done in their stead. This occasioned some slight despair on my part. “You can’t stop what’s coming,” as someone once said in another movie starring Josh Brolin, and I rather doubt that the filmmakers’ aim in making this picture was to excite the vanity of its audience. The point, as far as I understand it, isn’t “You could live if you did things differently than X” but rather that even the best-prepared are not really prepared. Not that I’ve ever been a “What’s the point?” kind of person in my aesthetic enthusiasms. But in spite of the excellent technical work and the efforts of a first-rate cast, “Everest” did not exhilarate or scare me as much as leave me flatly sad. A real-life footage coda to the movie suggests that the participants signed off on this portrayal, and in a sense it’s an apt and sensitive tribute. A good many accounts of the 1996 events have been told in book and movie form—Krakauer’s own highly-regarded book “Into Thin Air,” Beck Weathers’ memoir, and more. I myself worked on a piece for Premiere magazine focusing on the event from the perspective of David Breashears, who made the IMAX film “Everest” (1998) and who appears as a minor character here. I’ve not read Krakauer’s book, but perhaps I should. Coming out of this movie, the story remained upsettingly senseless to me, and an inapt one for a movie that. Despite its attempts at empathy, “Everest” often plays the cinematic thrill ride card.
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