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Beyond the Edge
Description
Slow-paced rehash of Mountain Everest climb scarcely deepened by 3D. Beyond the Edge depicts Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary's historical ascent of Mount Everest in 1953, an event that stunned the world and defined an era.
Slow-paced rehash of Mountain Everest climb scarcely deepened by 3D. Beyond the Edge depicts Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary's historical ascent of Mount Everest in 1953, an event that stunned the world and defined an era.
Actors:
Nima Wang Chhu,
Daniel Musgrove,
Chad Moffitt,
Jimmy Kunsang,
John Wraight,
John Hunt,
Callum Grant,
Erroll Shand,
Matthew Metcalfe,
Joshua Rutter,
Pasang Dawa Sherpa
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Nima Wang Chhu
Daniel Musgrove
Chad Moffitt
Jimmy Kunsang
John Wraight
John Hunt
Callum Grant
Erroll Shand
Matthew Metcalfe
Joshua Rutter
Pasang Dawa Sherpa
Genre:
Adventure, Drama, Documentary
Director:
Leanne Pooley
Leanne Pooley
Country:
International
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February 28, 2017
Just as she did with her great The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, director Leanne Pooley's work neatly refreshes our appreciation of a local legend.
Seattle Times
July 10, 2014
It's all rendered in 3D, with the archival footage reformatted; you'll feel the Everest chill and gape at the astonishing vistas.
October 16, 2014
Beyond The Edge brilliantly blends archival footage and reconstructions provide an engrossing, if sometimes dry, retelling of a breathtaking achievement.
July 03, 2014
This absorbing account of the first recorded summit of the world's highest mountain is a rare documentary for which re-enactments make complete sense.
August 10, 2014
You can't help but wonder how much more someone like Werner Herzog could have done with the story.
June 23, 2016
The recreations are excellent, right down the props, visual effects and costumes, unlike a great deal of History Channel documentaries.
July 03, 2014
...cinematography is magnificent, the scenery stunningly beautiful, and the recreations are woven into the narrative so seamlessly that they are almost unnoticeable...one of the best mountain-climbing movies.
July 02, 2014
Like a mountaineer grappling on sheet ice, the film's focus on performance can result in a loss of footing.
May 23, 2014
The film makes us admire him but there is little here of the excitement, pathos and despair that you find in the stories of climbers such as George Mallory and Joe Simpson.
May 16, 2015
Pooley and cinematographer Richard Bluck bring the story to life - along with the vivid possibility of death -- and the big screen is the place to see it.
July 03, 2014
Recalled in the somewhat breathless History Channel-style voice-overs of the participants and their families, the journey was a triumph of guts, perseverance, endurance, ingenuity and teamwork.

