When the ultimate adventure becomes the ultimate nightmare.... Kevin Macdonald's excellent BAFTA-award winning docu-drama (and Evening Standard Film Of The Year 2004), based on Joe Simpson's best-selling book, details the risks that climbers will take to conquer the rocky challenges before them in recounting a climbing expedition gone horribly wrong. The gripping, inspiring film combines dramatic reconstructions of the potentially fatal climb and interviews with the two men it nearly killed.
