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On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared on Everest, raising doubts about the first summit on the highest mountain in the world.
When Mallory was asked about his motivation, he replied that he wanted to climb Everest because it is there. Those three words went down in the history of mountaineering and are a fundamental part of understanding his legacy and that of all those who go to the heights in search of answers.
We review the movie The Summits of the Gods, released in late fall 2021 on NETFLIX.
It is a French film inspired by Jiro Taniguchi's comic of the same name, in turn based on a 1998 novel by Baku Yumemakura.
0:00 Because it's there
1:44 The Summits of the Gods
3:09 Habu Joji
6:25 Meeting on Everest
8:09 Why do we climb mountains?
This film is very similar in its artistic style to the other French-Japanese work The Red Turtle, of which I did an analysis: • Lo bello y lo triste d...
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