Hey there Peter,
I agree, they didn’t go the Into Thin Air approach, but that was a narrated docu-drama halfbreed. A good one, mainly because of the story, but a documentary all the same. I wouldn’t exactly say that any new ground was broken here. Or that we learned anything we didn’t learn from Krakauer’s long story or book. I would actually argue that from a sheer factual standpoint Everest muddle the events and made it even harder to understand what actually happened. But all the same, it was a compelling story that the larger world hasn’t really heard – and am glad it was told at that scale. Because it tells of hubris and pride and our dire hope for feeling alive, even in the face of loved ones standing next to us, assuring us that we are alive.

You can be assured that I will definitely pick up ‘A Day To Die For’, & ‘After the Wind’. There was a time when I couldn’t find enough material on the topic to read. And now with the movie out I’m feeing like it needs to be explored more, and understood at a wider scale.

I do have one question for you Peter. Do you happen to work in conjunction with the creation of this movie… any at all? From distribution? To Production? To anything? Because you definitely sound like it. Just saying.

Universal/the Director referred to Jon Krakauer as ‘a writer who just happened to be on the mountain at the time’. To learn more about what actually caused this seminal event you will need to read ‘A Day to Die For’ and ‘After the Wind’. Well done Working Title and Baltasar Kormakur for daring to break the mold!