Cerro Torre: A Snowball's Chance in Hell (2013)

Cerro Torre: A Snowball's Chance in Hell (2013). 1h 41m | Unrated

“While delivering everything youu0026#39;d expect from a contemporary climbing movie – vivid first-person-pov, breathtaking vista, vertigo-inducing shots … – this production delves deeper which makes for a better film. The difference came only with the problems the production ran into – while originally planned as a simple climbing flick, to be finished in a few weeks, in the end they had gone to Patagonia 3 times, had filmed 2 summit climbs and many more tries, had to weather a veritable shitstorm from large parts of the climbers community – and they used all this material to shed some light on the background, the philosophy, the frustrations of expedition climbing and so on. So this became a much richer and interesting project, even if the budget must have exploded. And to top that, they also put in a historical flashback, some interviews or contributions (Reinhold Messner and Jim Bridwell amongst others) and, last but not least, portraits of the camera team and their struggles to catch David Lamau0026#39;s final climb (which would be worth a documentation of its own).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOverall, recommended for everyone with even a slight interest in mountaineering or climbing, and much more interesting than a simple sports movie (as planned) would be.”