Epic documentary of a group of people going into remote pakistan to climb and ski/snowboard new peaks. The level of difficulty of both the climbing and the slopes was a sight to behold. At only an hour, this is a must watch.
5 Reviews
Wonderful
eshmana7 August 2020
Available on Youtube for free (for now) this film really should have had a much wider distribution. I'd've paid to see this at a cinema and felt like I'd stolen a viewing despite its short running time.
It's probably the best mountain film I've ever seen. Beautifully-shot, the photography, narration, and soundtrack perfectly capture the beauty, the thrills, the danger, and the excitement of this expedition. It's also a stunning portrait of Pakistan and its people.
It's probably the best mountain film I've ever seen. Beautifully-shot, the photography, narration, and soundtrack perfectly capture the beauty, the thrills, the danger, and the excitement of this expedition. It's also a stunning portrait of Pakistan and its people.
Simple ZABARDASSSSTTTT!!
arsalanchauhan25 April 2020
This is hands down one of the best documentaries and probably the best about mountain adventure or mountain Skiing...Simply Zabardast (Wonderful/Fantastic). Excellent cinematography, production, awesome score and of course the crazy mad and skilled team to take on this epic adventure...just perfect. Loved how it covered initial fears about the country and adventure itself and how it turned out to be a trip of a life time and broke stereotypes about the country. Thanks for showing the real beauty of Pakistan. ZABARDASSSSTTTT!!!!
Not a mountaineering documentary at all
JurijFedorov2 September 2021
The quality is great! 95% of the mountain climbing documentaries out there are still not in digital recording and they frankly can't show much climbing at all because you often can't carry huge cameras up mountains. This documentary is super simple and about nothing, yet it has the amazing quality going for it. Right now most mountains still don't have such amateur recordings with mini cams so you have to watch regular huge cams set up in camps only recording people just talking into the camera - not quite the same.
Now, while this is amazing quality it's not really the same as seeing an older documentary about a dangerous climb of a mountain where people even died or did a first. Those documentaries are about a big story.
Here you have a group of friends climb up mountains and snowboarding or skiing down them. So interesting shots for sure, but this is a vacation. It's a cool vacation and this is a curious plan. But at the end they just snowboard for a very short time down a slope, then rest in tents and do it again.
I guess it's easier to film this stuff than climbing where you are very high up - in the death zone. Here they always know what to do and are never in trouble.
It's like one of those Youtube videos where young people build a huge slide and do crazy jumps into a lake. This is it, but with a bit of climbing too. The climbing is maybe less than 5 minutes of the documentary.
They all take turn narrating and try to play it up by being super dramatic and overly emotional. Clearly the narration was done way letter and planned down to minor detail where they are always overly positive.
If you like vacation documentaries this is for you. If not then you'll like the first 35 minutes anyhow, but then it will get pretentious. Rich kids having a ton of fun splashing cash on fun stuff. I did find it fun for a bit, but it's not really a documentary. It's a flashy Youtube blog video.
Now, while this is amazing quality it's not really the same as seeing an older documentary about a dangerous climb of a mountain where people even died or did a first. Those documentaries are about a big story.
Here you have a group of friends climb up mountains and snowboarding or skiing down them. So interesting shots for sure, but this is a vacation. It's a cool vacation and this is a curious plan. But at the end they just snowboard for a very short time down a slope, then rest in tents and do it again.
I guess it's easier to film this stuff than climbing where you are very high up - in the death zone. Here they always know what to do and are never in trouble.
It's like one of those Youtube videos where young people build a huge slide and do crazy jumps into a lake. This is it, but with a bit of climbing too. The climbing is maybe less than 5 minutes of the documentary.
They all take turn narrating and try to play it up by being super dramatic and overly emotional. Clearly the narration was done way letter and planned down to minor detail where they are always overly positive.
If you like vacation documentaries this is for you. If not then you'll like the first 35 minutes anyhow, but then it will get pretentious. Rich kids having a ton of fun splashing cash on fun stuff. I did find it fun for a bit, but it's not really a documentary. It's a flashy Youtube blog video.
OK
shanayneigh10 May 2021
Some nice images, but not very well structured. The voice over felt a bit over the top and amateurish. It was nice to see that they treated the porters and locals with respect.
A shame that they didn't double-check the the title at the end in Urdu. Like Arabic, Urdu is written from right to left and the letters have to be connected in a certain way. The title at the end is written from left to right and the letters aren't connected. Very common mistake when people copy and paste text in Arabic script.
A shame that they didn't double-check the the title at the end in Urdu. Like Arabic, Urdu is written from right to left and the letters have to be connected in a certain way. The title at the end is written from left to right and the letters aren't connected. Very common mistake when people copy and paste text in Arabic script.
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