This film irritates from the first scene, as many films of this genre do, because of the inability of the makers to convey a mountain experience to their public through film. The aerial shots are great, but the rest of the film is totally unconvincing, in every single aspect. The avalanches seem like flour poured out of a bowl, the lost climbers walk uphill to reach the valley, etcetera. Evidently Americans are running the show in Nepal. Even the helicopter pilots are American and the Sherpas need their American clients to save the day. The story is a cliché: almost a copy of another (terrible) mountain film: "Vertical Limits". Guess what willpower and the thought of the family at home can achieve in an emergency! Mountaineering deserves better films than this one.
Review of Survival on the Mountain
