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I recently watched the movie "Everest", the movie shows the adventures journey of some climbers and their high motivation to reach the crest. After they reached huge storms and icefall occuring, that makes things difficult, even at difficult times they try to help each other. A movie worth watching.

I also like movies about mountain climbing  - takes a lot of commitment and drive to get to the top.  At one time I was reading all of the books of Joe Simpson, who as a famous mountain climber from the UK also had the gift of telling the mountain climbing stories with a tongue in the cheek humour plus hands on detail. 

His book and following the book the movie Touching the Void  (2004) were best sellers. They are about a real life story of two very close mountain climbing buddies (Joe Simpson and Simon Yates) who went mountain climbing in South America and tackled the Siula Grande, in the Peruvian Andes an unknown and never climbed before face of the mountain.  Then when one of them - Joe Simpson -  broke his leg and fell over the cliff, and was dangling by the rope that was attached to his buddy and dragging at Simon, Simon  had to make a decision for his own survival to cut the rope. Whether that was his only choice and the right choice to make had mountain climbers debate this for many years afterwards.  Following the cut of the rope Joe Simpson fell into a very deep crevice and his buddy thought he had to be dead so descended the mountain and returned to the base camp alone announcing that Joe was dead.  Joe actually survived the fall and then followed his great ordeal when he basically crawled with a broken leg out of the crevice and down the mountain to the camp.  The way he told it in the book was nail biting stuff.  The movie was also very good and definitely worth watching.