This
is the story of the 1996 EVEREST Film Expedition,
a MacGillivray Freeman production in association
with Arcturus Motion Pictures. Filmed in breathtaking
IMAX® photography, EVEREST is the dramatic
true story of a team of climbers who found hope,
strength and triumph in the wake of tragedy. Their
successful ascent of Mount Everest just days after
fellow mountaineers and friends died there, is
a compelling story about the human spirit and
a mountain they love, respect and sometimes fear.
Says producer Greg MacGillivray: "Great fictional
films impart an emotional story of a life and death
struggle. Our large format films, being non-fiction,
have never before had that same urgency and poignancy.
But with EVEREST we have these powerful story elements
in a real, nonfiction film, photographed as it all
happened in the most realistic format yet invented."
 Shown on the tallest screens in the world, EVEREST
takes audiences across creaking icefalls and gaping
chasms, up dangerous, towering cliffs, through a
harrowing rescue, and into the danger zone of oxygen-thin
altitude. The 40-minute film also reveals how this
tallest mountain was formed and continues to evolve,
how high altitude challenges a climber's physical
and mental capabilities, and how Sherpa culture
permeates the Mount Everest experience.
EVEREST
is co-directed by David Breashears, who summited
Mount Everest himself to bring back this
remarkable chronicle. The stars are the expedition
members: Ed Viesturs, Araceli Segarra, Jamling Tenzing
Norgay, Sumiyo Tsuzuki, Paula Viesturs and the Sherpas
who helped carry the heaviest camera ever to film
on Everest's peak.
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