This film has a 84%
percent positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Only three
centuries ago, setting out to climb a mountain would have been considered close
to lunacy. Mountains were places of peril, not beauty, an upper world to be
shunned, not sought out. Why do mountains now hold us spellbound, drawing us
into their dominion, often at the cost of our lives? From Tibet to Australia,
Alaska to Norway armed with drones, Go-Pros and helicopters, director Jennifer
Peedom has fashioned an astonishing symphony of mountaineers, ice climbers,
free soloists, heliskiers, snowboarders, wingsuiters and parachuting mountain
bikers. Willem Dafoe provides a narration sampled from British mountaineer
Robert Macfarlane's acclaimed memoir Mountains of the Mind , and a classical
score from the Australian Chamber Orchestra accompanies this majestic cinematic
experience.