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Title: Vertical Limit (2000)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Chris O'Donnell | ... | Peter Garrett | |
| Robin Tunney | ... | Annie Garrett | |
| Stuart Wilson | ... | Royce Garrett | |
| Augie Davis | ... | Aziz | |
| Temuera Morrison | ... | Major Rasul | |
| Roshan Seth | ... | Colonel Amir Salim | |
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Alejandro Valdes-Rochin | ... | Sergeant Asim |
| Nicholas Lea | ... | Tom McLaren | |
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Rod Brown | ... | Ali Hasan |
| Scott Glenn | ... | Montgomery Wick | |
| Steve Le Marquand | ... | Cyril Bench | |
| Ben Mendelsohn | ... | Malcolm Bench | |
| Izabella Scorupco | ... | Monique Aubertine | |
| Bill Paxton | ... | Elliot Vaughn | |
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Ed Viesturs | ... | Himself |
A high-adrenaline tale of young climber Peter Garrett, who must launch a treacherous and extraordinary rescue effort up K2, the world's second highest peak. Confronting both his own limitations and the awesome power of nature's uncontrollable elements, Peter risks his life to save his sister, Annie, and her summit team in a race against time. The team is trapped in an icy grave at 26,000 feet - a death zone above the vertical limit of endurance where the human body cannot survive for long. Every second counts as Peter enlists the help of a crew of fellow climbers, including eccentric, reclusive mountain man Montgomery Wick, to ascend the chilling might of the world's most feared peak to save her. Written by Sujit R. Varma
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This movie is a so-typical Hollywood action-flick you almost can't believe it. It seems like the producers looked up this bunch of cool gadgets mountain climbers use (many of which are sharp or have pointy ends) and tried to portray some of the most irresponsible climbing you could think of.
Sure, it's hell if your sis is stuck in an avalanche on K-2 but, as some climber already pointed out in basecamp, you don't go risking another six people to 'possibly' get two down. Besides, there are better ways to do this than by strapping a can of nitroglycerine to your back.(small note: dynamite is essentially chalk soaked in nitro which stabilizes it. Guess they hadn't thought of that?)
Furthermore, you never climb beneath another group's ropes (lest they fall and drag you with them...), you do not sprint across a ridge wearing glacier-irons, you do not sit on a 5cm ledge without a safety rope attached, you do jump out of a helicopter trying to fall down unless you intend to end up spaghetti.
In short, this movie severely damages the image of the real mountain climbers, who consider safety and precaution a way of life and not something to disregard to look cool.