Cerro Torre: A Snowball's Chance in Hell

2013

Action / Adventure / Documentary / Sport

2
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 40%
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 487 487

climbing patagonia, argentina goat mountain climbing mountaineering andes mountains

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Plot summary

Movie about David Lama climbing the Patagonian mountain Cerro Torre for the first time free, a mountain that has been dubbed the most difficult to climb in the world.

Director

Thomas Dirnhofer Photo
Thomas Dirnhofer

Top cast

Reinhold Messner Photo
Reinhold Messner as Self
Jeff Burrell Photo
Jeff Burrell as Narrator
Jim Bridwell Photo
Jim Bridwell as Self
Alexander Huber Photo
Alexander Huber as Appearances by
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944.24 MB
1280*534
German 2.0
Unrated
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23.976 fps
1 hr 42 min
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1.89 GB
1920*800
German 5.1
Unrated
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23.976 fps
1 hr 42 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 10 / 10

I saw the US premier of this excellent

I saw the US premier of this excellent movie last night at #SBIFF. Very inspiring and climactic movie. An amazing amount of effort went into climbing this incredible peak in Patagonia without the pitons. David Lama did a great job of answering questions after the movie and confirmed that nothing in the movie was staged.
Reviewed by kaurvirunurm 9 / 10

Good insight into the controversy of climbing

Climbing, especially at altitude, is a controversial sport. How much risk can you take? What style and equipment are fair to use? Should one trust the experts and community, or only himself?Cerro Torre is an excellent example of this controversy - first with Maestri's disputed ascent, then with his undisputed but condemned one, then with Kennedy & Kruk cleansing the mountain. "Cerro Torre" captures all of this and adds a story of David Lama, a Nepalese wonder boy obsessed with free climbing the peak.Some interest in climbing is probably required to fully enjoy this movie. If you don't understand the delicate difference between free & aid climbing, or don't know where Patagonia is and why climbing there is special, then you might not enjoy it as deeply as more informed viewers. However the amazing scenery, thrilling climbing sequences and conflicts between the climbers are there for everyone.Extra kudos to the film crew for getting to the summit themselves!Highly recommended.
Reviewed by IndustriousAngel 8 / 10

More than a climbing film

While delivering everything you'd expect from a contemporary climbing movie - vivid first-person-pov, breathtaking vista, vertigo-inducing shots ... - this production delves deeper which makes for a better film. The difference came only with the problems the production ran into - while originally planned as a simple climbing flick, to be finished in a few weeks, in the end they had gone to Patagonia 3 times, had filmed 2 summit climbs and many more tries, had to weather a veritable shitstorm from large parts of the climbers community - and they used all this material to shed some light on the background, the philosophy, the frustrations of expedition climbing and so on. So this became a much richer and interesting project, even if the budget must have exploded. And to top that, they also put in a historical flashback, some interviews or contributions (Reinhold Messner and Jim Bridwell amongst others) and, last but not least, portraits of the camera team and their struggles to catch David Lama's final climb (which would be worth a documentation of its own).Overall, recommended for everyone with even a slight interest in mountaineering or climbing, and much more interesting than a simple sports movie (as planned) would be.
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