Posted on 08/30/2016 4:10:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Good movie; grim. I was surprised that they hinted that commercializing the climb/taking money to get wealthy people up there was partially to blame for the disaster. In one scene a female staffer says she hopes they don’t have a situation where nobody “summits” as they had the year before; in hindsight the problem with those packages is that some people that weren’t professionals were attempting the climb...
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