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Everest is a 2015 biographical survival film directed and produced by Baltasar Kormákur and written by William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy. It stars an ensemble cast of Jason Clarke , Jake Gyllenhaal , Josh Brolin , John Hawkes , Robin Wright , Michael Kelly , Sam Worthington , Keira Knightley , Martin Henderson and Emily Watson .
Beck Weathers is an American pathologist from Texas who survived the 1996 Mount Everest disaster.His story was covered in Jon Krakauer's book Into Thin Air (1997), its film adaptation Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (1997), and the films Everest (1998) and Everest (2015).
Stanley Kubrick cast Rain as the voice of the HAL 9000 computer for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) after hearing his narration of a short documentary titled Universe and later chose him as "the creepy voice of HAL". [9] In the film, his voice was also sometimes processed with an electronic device called the Eltro information rate changer.
Into Thin Air: Death on Everest, a TV movie on the 1996 Everest disaster, starred Nathaniel Parker as Rob Hall. The series Seconds From Disaster published an episode about the 1996 incident called "Into The Death Zone". Rob Hall's ordeal is heavily covered in the episode. The Neil Finn song "The Climber" was inspired by Rob Hall's death.
Breashears summited Mount Everest five times, including with the IMAX camera in 1996, his family said. David Breashears, mountaineer and filmmaker who co-produced Mount Everest documentary, dies at 68
British climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine died on Everest in 1924. New research sheds light on whether they reached the summit first. 100 years ago they disappeared on Everest.
In the history of film and television, accidents have occurred during shooting, such as cast or crew fatalities or serious accidents that plagued production.From 1980 to 1990, there were 37 deaths relating to accidents during stunts; 24 of these deaths involved the use of helicopters. [1]
David Finlay Breashears (December 20, 1955 – March 14, 2024) was an American mountaineer, filmmaker, author and motivational speaker. [1] In 1985, he reached the summit of Mount Everest a second time, becoming the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest more than once.