Show moreĪs viscerally intense as Gravity and tinged with the same level of inevitable doom as The Perfect Storm, this is a fittingly harrowing depiction of a most tragic day in mountaineering history. Then, on May 10, when both teams headed up the busy mountain, small setbacks - coupled with an unexpected blizzard - led to a catastrophe so memorable that it led to dozens of memoirs and years of debate about the place of commercial guided mountaineering on the world's riskiest peaks. But during the acclimatizing time at Base Camp, Hall discovered the mountain was chock full of other commercial guides, like laid-back American Scott Fischer ( Jake Gyllenhaal), who was leading his own high-profile reporter, socialite Sandy Pittman ( Vanessa Kirby), and other paying clients. Everest, the film focuses on New Zealand guide Rob Hall ( Jason Clarke), whose Adventure Consultants team hoped to get clients - including Outside magazine journalist Jon Krakauer ( Michael Kelly), Texan doctor Beck Weathers ( Josh Brolin), and modest mail carrier Doug Hansen ( John Hawkes) - to the summit. Inspired by multiple narratives of what was then the deadliest day on Mt.

EVEREST is the retelling of the tragic events surrounding the May 10, 1996, disaster that claimed eight lives on Earth's highest peak.

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