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> Great film, but I must admit in the credits at the end it should really have said "Based on a chapter of 'The White Spider' by Heinrich Harrer" rather than "Based on 'The Beckoning Silence' by Joe Simpson".
A lot of the the book of the "beckoning silence" is about the white spider IIRC the bit about Kurtz death is directly quoted. Perhaps it should have been based on the Beckoning Silence by Joe Simpson which was based on the White Spider by H.H.
I thought that JS's experiences would have given him some legitimate insight as to what Kurtz would have gone through, trapped by the system, hanging on the end of a rope in freezing dark. Its too big for me to imagine anyway.