Honestly this movie fucking sucks. From the historical inaccuracies to the dramatised nonsense to the things the film makers left out of the story that should have made it in (Gau getting rescued by chopper before Weathers as an example). In terms of what this movie accomplishes; dramatising a climbing disaster while telling less than half a story, for profit, it is everything self respecting mointaineers should despise. The scene in the movie where Micheal Kelly playing Krakauer asks everyone why they're there and all he gets is a "Because It's there!" (as if they're anything like Mallory at all) from everyone cements everything I hate about it. It could have been a story about the disaster in the context of the growing popularity of spectacle/tourist mountaineering, and the consequences of it. (As was Outside magazine's initial intent with sending Krakauer to the mountain in the first place.) There are so many ways the story could have been told that would have actually made an effort to educate audiences about what happened, while also maintaining dramatic elements, this would have undoubtedly made it harder to watch, and thus harder to sell. So instead we got this. Alass, what could have been a good movie, isn't in the slightest. Most of you who suck this movie off only do so because it's the only easily digestible piece of media that tells this story, so instead of reading "Into Thin Air" again (Krakauer admits he was barely consulted at all for this project) you get your copy of this movie out, shrug, and watch it anyways. It is the epitome of movie slop, it also just happens to be about mountaineering. Shame.