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Synopsis: An experience about the highest peaks around the world.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Jennifer Peedom
Actors: Willem Dafoe
Production: Greenwich Entertainment
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
82
Rotten Tomatoes:
85%
PG
Year:
2017
74 min
Website
4,911 Views


How has it come to this?

The mountains as a stage

set for a pumped-up

poker game of high

stakes and high returns.

All driven by big brands and online views.

Many who traveled among the tops are half in love with themselves

And half in love with oblivion.

Today's mountain mania culminates on Everest.

Where the wish to test one's limits

Or to battle one's

demons draws thousands

of people to the peak each year.

Attempting Everest

offers a way for the

ordinary person to be

briefly extraordinary.

But the nature of the challenge has in many ways changed.

This isn't climbing anymore.

It's queuing.

This isn't exploration.

It's crowd control.

This is the modern industry of ascent.

In which the risks are often taken most by those who have least.

But mountains exceed our command.

They slip our grip.

And there is no glory for those who are left behind.

Mountains are so much

more than a challenge...

Or an adversary to be overcome.

For mountains humble the human instinct.

And reveal our insignificance.

They live in deep time. In a way that we do not.

Behind and beyond the

mountains stretch

eons too fast for

us to comprehend.

They were here long before we were even dreamed of.

They watched us arrive.

They will watch us leave.

Born of fire.

Born of force.

Mountains move.

Over epochs they rise and fall.

This is the symphony of the Earth.

A rhythm of uplift and

erosion that makes

not waves of water...

But waves of stone.

And from these waves of stone flows life.

Being in the mountains can

ignite our astonishment

at the simplest transactions

of the living world.

Anyone who has been among mountains knows their indifference.

Has felt a brief blazing sense of the world's disinterest in us.

In small measures...

This feeling exhilarates.

In full form... It annihilates.

Coming back to Earth from the high peaks

You can feel like a stranger.

Bearing experiences

that are beyond

expression... And beyond price.

Time has flown over you but left a shadow behind.

Mountains don't seek our love...

Or seek our deaths.

They want nothing from us.

And yet... They shift the way we see ourselves.

They weather our spirits.

Challenge our arrogance.

Restore our wonder.

More than ever...

We need their wildness.

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Robert Macfarlane

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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