I think this is a really well done documentary. It is narratively straightforward and told in a great way. It flows very well and is done respectfully. I suppose that's what you get when the filmmaker is a mountaineer who was actually among the group that the film is about.
Again I am forced to wonder what on god's green Earth would compel folks to embark on an incredibly dangerous trek up the most remote place on land. There is no amount of anything that would convince me to do this and yet there are rich people with too much time on their hands that decide to do this all the time.
I really respect that David Breashears does not focus on the beauty of the mountain or the thrill of reaching the top, instead we get so much time dedicated to the brutality these people went through. And at the end we get his narration about how the mountain is just a mountain and all of the prestige surrounding it is socially constructed.
People die climbing this thing and bodies litter the mountainside. One of the most morbid places on Earth and I am quite satisfied to only experience it through documentary.
