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The climb

If you’ve read journalist Jon Krakauer’s bestselling Into Thin Air, or watched the middling 1997 film adaptation of the same, or know anything at all of the broad strokes of the story, you won’treally find much that is surprising in the new Everest—at least not as far as the plot is concerned. The new film, helmed by Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, tells the tale of the very same ill-fated 1996 Everest expedition that Krakauer had been part of and written about, the one in which a deadly storm had claimed the lives of eight of his fellow climbers on their descent from the peak. But while Into Thin Air boasted a distinct, albeit quite controversial, point-of-view, Everest—relying as it does on a mishmash of first-hand accounts, books, reports and other records of the incident—is far more reluctant to take anything resembling a stance. The climb
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Preena Shrestha
Published at : October 10, 2015
Updated at : October 10, 2015 10:05
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