Making of EVEREST - Behind the Scenes with the Real Climbers, Actors, and Locations

EVEREST the movie follows the 1996 Everest disaster will live on in mountaineering history forever.
In the 2015 EVEREST the movie, go behind the scenes on how they filmed the Everest mountain shots. Where was Everest the movie filmed. Go Behind the scenes of Everest the Movie with interviews from each main actor and the Living climbers who they played.
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In May 1996, several commercial expeditions at the base camp of Mount Everest prepare to climb to the summit. Rob Hall, who popularized commercial Everest missions, leads Adventure Consultants; Scott Fischer is the chief guide for its rival, Mountain Madness. Rob's clients include Beck Weathers, an experienced climber; Doug Hansen, a former mailman pursuing his dream; climbing veteran Yasuko Namba, who hopes to complete her final Seven Summits ascent; and Outside magazine journalist Jon Krakauer. Helen Wilton manages Rob's base camp. A month earlier in New Zealand, Rob says goodbye to his pregnant wife, Jan, and promises that he will be home for the birth. At the base camp, Rob receives a fax from her, informing him that their unborn baby is a girl. He wants to name her Sarah, but Jan disagrees.
Worried about climbers overcrowding, Rob persuades Scott to cooperate to reduce delays. On the summit attempt, Rob's group departs from Camp IV before dawn, planning to complete the ascent and begin descending by 2:00 PM., the latest safe time to ensure return before nightfall. The group is delayed by over an hour after discovering that guide ropes are not installed on the upper reaches of the climb. Beck has eyesight problems and stops. Rob tells him to return to base camp if his condition does not improve in a half-hour. Scott hurries down to camp to help another climber, but plans to re-ascend, and Rob warns him about overexertion.
Rob reaches the summit on time and is joined by other climbers including Yasuko, who jubilantly plants her Japanese flag. Descending, Rob encounters Doug struggling to ascend just above the Hillary Step and orders him to descend. Doug insists on continuing, saying that he will not get the chance again. Rob reluctantly agrees and they reach the summit two hours later, well past the safe return time. Doug is exhausted and suffering from altitude sickness. With them is Scott, exhausted and ill from high-altitude pulmonary edema. As Rob helps Doug descend, a blizzard strikes while Doug's oxygen tank is empty, causing him to suffer hypoxia. No extra bottles are stored on the route as Rob asked and he radios Helen to send more oxygen. Doug, left briefly by Rob, semi-consciously detaches himself from the guide rope and walks unsteadily along the narrow path, then silently topples to his death.
Scott's condition worsens. He tells his fellow climbers to continue descending without him. He lies down and later dies. Descending climbers reach Beck, whose vision remains impaired, but they all become lost as the blizzard obliterates the trail. Three climbers go for help, leaving Beck and Yasuko. Guide Andy 'Harold' Harris reaches Rob with spare oxygen, but the cylinder aperture is frozen shut. They huddle together in the storm. While Rob sleeps, Andy begins to have hallucinations. He then strips off his outer clothing and slides to his death. In the morning, Rob radios Helen that Doug and Andy are gone, and that his extremities are frozen. Helen calls Jan, hoping that Rob will respond to her voice. Jan tells Rob that he must start moving. Rob tells her that he is cold but otherwise comfortable, and asks her to name their baby Sarah, dying soon afterwards.
Returning climbers tell the camp that Beck and Yasuko are stranded. The weather, however, makes a rescue impossible. Helen calls Beck's wife, Peach, and informs her of the situation. In the morning, Beck miraculously awakens, sees that Yasuko is dead, and stumbles down to camp alone, severely frostbitten and in need of medical help. Peach calls the American Embassy and organizes a helicopter rescue. Nepal Army pilot Lt. Col. Madan Khatri Chhetri flies a high altitude mission to take Beck to hospital. Meanwhile, one of Scott's guides, Anatoli, finds his body, and moves it off the trail. Returning home, Helen has an emotional reunion with Jan, who later gives birth successfully and names her daughter Sarah. Beck returns to his family, heavily bandaged. Closing titles reveal that he lost both hands and nose to frostbite, and that Rob's body remains on Everest.

[@ElizabethT45]

I've watched everything I can find about this expedition, and this is the first time I've seen the letter that Jan got from the Sherpas. It made me emotional seeing their kindness.

[@bambangsuseno8764]

Many Indonesians have also learned a lot about the disaster that took place in Mt. Everest in 1996. Fortunately, the following year, a small team of climbers from the Indonesian Special Force (Kopassus) was able to reach the summit of Mt. Everest in spite of the fact that they are from a tropical country.

[@MrBucketlist]

Thank-you for this. Im obsessed with the expedition.

[@DavidSnowClimbing]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Docochoco39]

MrBucketlist, I feel the same way. I spent my childhood climbing 13,000 ft mountains near my hometown in Colorado like they were beasts I had to slay! Never did I think I’d be so obsessed with this gripping, tear jerking REAL story of tragedy and perseverance. Kudos to the ENTIRE movie, especially Mr. Brashears and the real hero’s; THE SHERPAS AND PORTERS. I’d ABSOLUTELY LOVE to be on this adventure, if not to climb Everest but to take in the friendship and great time of the walk to base camp and to help from base camp!

[@Lady.B0420]

This story was so well done. They were able to draw you into the experiences these people were going through. And though I know the outcome, I always find myself rooting for them to succeed and to get back down the mountain.

[@viancyc9381]

I saw the movie for the 1st time last week after watching the original documentaries on it and they were spot on based on that. Seeing what must have happened and their last moments on Everest. It's very eerie but well done.

[@drtheengrumb4439]

I have been saving for 3 years to climb Everest, if all goes planned, I will be on Mt Everest in 2023. I am so excited and scared at the same time,

[@yannachka]

hope you are going to pay/tip your sherpas well (not just the expedition company that takes advantage of the sherpas) for their skills and them risking their lives to help you reach the top.

[@drtheengrumb4439]

@@yannachka I have learned the result of not taking care of the Sherpas. I remember hearing about a time people only tipped them something like $2-$3 per bag where on average they get something like $12-$15. I am not sure how recent this is though but those Sherpas are the ones who will be risking their lives to help me achieve a life-long dream, I am planning on making sure my "tip" is life-changing for them as well.

[@sinamehdizadeh1433]

Wish you a safe travel and a fantastic adventure!

[@AzZzerix]

Wish you all the best and hope you return with a lot of good memories!

[@johnwick5894]

I am hoping to do the trek to base camp in the future. Ascending the mountain is too expensive for me

[@persephone2706]

Josh Brolin has told so many incredible people's stories... He is a world class actor.

[@mikematthews7018]

Crazy to think he was in The Goonies. My favourite film from being a kid.

[@TheIronmarot]

@@mikematthews7018 Crazy to think he was in The Avengers too...

[@AndyBarker666]

One of my 2 favourite films of all time. Touching The Void and Everest... Being a Yorkshire lad i've had the pleasure of meeting Joe Simpson on the crags. Proper down to earth bloke with HUGE insight.

[@penntaylor5110]

This is the kind of film i can watch many times and never get tired of it.

[@Piggelin1]

I have seen the movie many times. It’s so Well done🤗🇸🇪

[@marisabel5500]

The movie was really well done!

[@tomaszwozniak4343]

I love this movie! Very well made and faithful to the story

[@iainbrewin]

The book Into Thin Air about this is my favourite book. Going to read it again this year. So good...

[@DavidSnowClimbing]

It's so good!

[@courtneygooden9609]

I thought that book was about the young man, Chris.......or am I thinking of something else? Serious question 🥴

[@iainbrewin]

@@courtneygooden9609 Thats into the wild I think. Same author though!!

[@courtneygooden9609]

@@iainbrewin thankyou, I think I’ll read both since I only hear good reviews

[@amp3649]

Loved this movie could watch again after I finish watching it for the third time.

[@juliasimny9873]

Thank you so much for this. Whatched the movie a several times and always asked myself: How did they do this?

[@quincey5128]

Great movie, after watching it. It makes me want to summit everest in this lifetime.

[@sandragill9916]

Beautifully told story

[@DavidSnowClimbing]

Glad you liked it

[@1wookieman]

A fantastic movie. Lots of great actors.

[@internetuser528]

This movie was so hard to sit through 😭 I had to take a break for a whole day and night because I was not brave enough to watch all of it in one sitting.

[@kevinbautsch]

I just bought this movie. It's really quite good.

[@bengtwahlstedt1021]

Great movie. Great actors. Great team. RIP Rob and all the others who lost their lives 1996 !!! 😪 RIP all the others since 1924 !!!

[@blancalopez104]

Para mí ,estos hombres son muy valientes ,aventureros ,y buscadores de la belleza de la naturaleza ,y también buscadores de la espiritualidad ,y muchos han dado su vida por ello

[@Slaphappy1975]

Great movie. Thrilling, exhilarating, and heart-wrenching sadness.

[@melissadenmark424]

I'm also obsessed with this and the people

[@AS-zu8kp]

the best movie I've ever seen

[@xoswatson351]

This was a nice behind the scenes 😢

[@Heisenberg19960]

I love this movie 🙏

[@petergianakopoulos4926]

Jon said it was his biggest regret going on a guided expedition.

[@robbiedunder]

“The sherpas having to dig us out, yet we persevered” lmao yes it sounds like quite the struggle for the westerners

[@fred.wright]

HEY! It was extremely traumatizing for us westerners having to watch them dig out the set! 😢

[@freddiem1963]

I seriously couldn't do this if I were an actor, it would only be great for the experience, I love watching stuff about Everest and most climbing stuff across the world, including cave diving & discovering new places but, on no circumstances could I adventure into the unknown.

[@billdegroot2087]

Read the book in one sitting movie did it justice

[@VikteFausta]

Don’t get me wrong, I really liked this movie, it shows how much work went into it. But I keep thinking that they all talk about how difficult it was, the harsh conditions, but they do not talk about people, who live there, who do this for living and stuff like that. So I wished they talked about that more and supported communities there instead of filming a movie, talking how difficult it was and leaving.

[@jaiofalltrades2032]

Its about the story of the climbers and the mountain, not specifically about the community. There’s a difference.

[@VikteFausta]

@@jaiofalltrades2032 well, you have a point.

[@Golard-Kostas]

Rip 1996

[@chrisnesbitt8454]

I've watched the movie several times, many documentaries, I still get misty listening to Beck Weathers...

[@VTPSTTU]

I originally asked the following question before I read the movie plot. Was the film told from the "Into Thin Air" perspective of Krakauer or from the "The Climb" perspective of Anatoli Boukreev or did the writers, producers, and director try to find the truth in the midst of those two perspectives plus others? I've read both books, and I suspect that the real truth is somewhere in the middle. I believe a movie was made back in the 90's and that they tried to make everything from the Krakauer perspective. I never saw that movie. I then read the plot of this movie in the video notes. Apparently, the person writing the plot didn't read either book because many of the details are wrong. For instance, Rob Hall did not tell Beck Weathers to return to base camp. No one was talking about returning to base camp. The first goal was just to return to Camp IV. Rob and Beck had agreed that Beck would wait until Rob returned so that Rob could lead him back to Camp IV. Both books seem to agree on that point. Several people offered to help Beck back to Camp IV, and if Beck had gone with them instead of waiting for Rob Hall, he would have been safely in his tent before the storm hit. He wouldn't have been stuck on the mountain, and the other climbers returning through the storm might have moved more quickly without having to help a man who was blinded and cold from sitting in the death zone for hours. That Rob Hall ordered Doug Hansen to go down the mountain just short of the summit is not certain. Many accounts say that Rob took the chance of helping Doug towards the summit long after the turnaround time because he didn't want Doug to miss his last chance to summit. I'm sure that Doug wanted to continue, but the idea that Rob Hall insisted that he return has not been part of the narrative as told by anyone whose accounts I've read. I don't remember anyone absolutely knowing that Andy Harris reached Rob Hall with oxygen. I've never heard that Andy Harris absolutely hallucinated, stripped out of his outer clothing, and fell to his death. Maybe someone has found his clothing up there and can surmise that sequence of events, but no one on the original climb told that story at the beginning. No one who was up there survived. Anatoli Boukreev didn't find Scott Fischer's body until another climb during a different climbing season. Anatoli had controversially come back to Camp IV ahead of the clients. As a result, he was rested enough to make several rescue attempts. He rescued the people who had been huddled with Beck and Yasuko Namba. I think he tried to reach Scott, but he couldn't. Beck wasn't rescued from Camp IV as the plot description suggests. He had to descend with help to about Camp II before he was low enough for the helicopter to reach him. The movie looked interesting until I read that description of the plot and realized how many details the movie apparently gets wrong.

[@miru-tea]

It’s a movie, not a documentary.

[@mareklesniak8768]

In this movie, Beck was rescued from Camp II, which is correct.

[@larshenrik8900]

Its pretty safe to assume that Andy stripped off his clothing as that is a very common occurence for people suffering from hypothermia to do

[@chrisnesbitt8454]

The money's all up on the screen... ❤

[@davecarsley8773]

Damn! Rob Hall sure left a stunner of a daughter behind!

[@bestvideos4ever1]

a brilliant play but after i watched a film from 90* called "K2" its this one i like more....btw. i like thouse old cinema hollywood

[@brent1116]

Why its not on netflix anymore?😪

[@dante9928]

It's available

[@leo88oel]

Jan is a Tina Fey look-alike!

[@sararestivo6044]

YOU CAN BET A MOVIE IS MADE ABOUT EVEREST !! AND THEY WILL BEEF IT UP

[@upallnite3164]

In to thin Air 1997 movie I think was far more realistic to the real people. This new one seams to be only worried about how Mt Everest looks on film and IMO portrays certain people in a good light and certain people in a bad light. There was a Jab at Jon Krakauer, he had been asked to go help find the lost climbers ,Beck Weathers and refused bc he didn't want to die. I am not buying that line of the story at all. He wrote the book In to thin Air that was made into the 1997 movie. The New movie didn't talk about how that stupid social lite had to have all her stupid stuff brought up the mountain, causing the Sherpa to be to tired to place the fix ropes for the summit climb. That Imo caused both groups to run late. I just watch both movies today. 1997 movie looked very real and gritty. 2015 look to pretty, and not in a good way. I think climbing Mt Everest is a crazy thing to do, these days .I just seen a picture of what looked like 50 people waiting in a que to get to the summit. This is very dangerous. This is not climbing, bc we all know the Sherpas do all of the fix lines and ladders all the real dangerous stuff. So the Money people don't have to do anything but take a picture at the summit. Rip to all the Climbers that have pass on Mt Everest.

[@rsangala]

Great movie , well made

[@laurabell48]

I certainly agree with everything you have written.

[@marcgregoire3949]

Sherpas?

[@coryCuc]

What about them?

[@marcgregoire3949]

@@coryCuc More recognition ought to be given to the Sherpas. My humble opinion.

[@mon6745]

I wish they interviewed the sherpas

[@helmutflieger4098]

The actors are the real heroes here - the way they persevere through momentary, slight discomfort, all the while imagining how the real people must've felt. (Don't mind me. I did love the movie.)

[@TravellingDarvesh]

One of the easiest mountain to summit! Refer to Traffic jam Pic of the summit! You don't see that on K-2 or Annapurna or Nanga Purbat.

[@chingunjinamiijn3732]

Did rob hall die?

[@my2cents581]

I understand that the making of this movie provided employment for the locals, but on the flip side, it must have profoundly disturbed the peaceful, unadulterated land and culture. Imagine 200 helicopter trips!

[@manilkumar73]

It's called Himalaya not Hiimmalayas☹

[@GrumpyOldMan9]

17:00 If it required my nose and hands to be frozen off to save my marriage, I would consider trying another relationship.

[@SDK99999]

I've watched the movie and I thought that was really shitty acting honestly. The breathing and talking at altitudes are just different! One can see the efforts with CGI which is appreciable but the acting ... Sorry

[@Ghostshadows306]

Agree the movie stunk. And I didn’t have to watch it to know it did. 😁

[@RG-ja34sep]

I think the movie was a major disappointment. The casting could have been better, and there were some inaccuracies. I much preferred the 3D IMAX production.

[@guccipostssofficial]

The casting was amazing and the cinematography is the best in a movie ever. Amazing movie

[@coryCuc]

Absolutely loved the movie and thought the casting and cinematography was spot on.

[@bessonovafan6454]

Yes, things could have been added or changed, but a lot of it was for dramatic effect. This movie is my second favourite telling of this story. My favourite is Beck Weathers’ presentation.

[@drewyoung3885]

Worst show ever