Friday, December 25, 2009

Frontline: Storm Over Everest

Interesting to see, and be able to put faces to the names that I'd read about so long ago in Krakauer's "Into Thin Air".

Quite powerful documentary.

And it definitely shows a different side than Into Thin Air. For example, from what I remember, Makalu Gau didn't get portrayed too sympathetically in the book. However, this documentary has pretty extensive parts where he explains his side of the story, which was lacking in the book.

And through the course of the interviews, you can really get a sense of the intense destruction these people have subjected their bodies to due to their experiences in 1996.

1 comment:

Su said...

Well they're just insane.