Finally got round to watching this last night
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844457/. I know the story pretty well and hadn't thought about it much beyond "Oh there's a climbing film I can watch as the other half is away and we have a free subscription to amazon prime for a bit". I had spent the day in Cheddar and had had serious conversations once or twice with my own supply of courage, which seems to dwindle as I get older, and the contrast between that pretty easy climbing in a benign environment and this time and arena was humbling.
The second half with the retreat, deaths and attempted rescue was just harrowing and my reaction to this took me by suprise. Silly when I think of it now - what did I expect? I was blase as we all know what happens in the end, but to see it played out was not at all pleasant.
Poor b*ggers.
Two other things - despite being a complete artifice AFAIK the insertion of the love interest was actually not too painful - I enjoyed the male reporter character and the issues that bit of the story brought up.
The Hinterstoisser traverse - it is just a traverse right, they didn't do some kind of Yosemite pendulum move on it did they? (Edited to add - Wiki tells me they did try to on the descent. Wow. Also when I say *just* a traverse I appreciate it is no 4a bimble).
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