In reply to UKC/UKH Gear:
I'll avoid any spoilers here.
Has anyone else seen the film? I watched it last week and felt disappointed in a number of ways. It felt too short, at around 45 minutes there was no way they were going to be able to tell the history, the culture, the relationship between the climbers and the guides as well as showing the adventure and the climbing, but they tried to do all these things and didn't really manage to do any of them.
I've really enjoyed Leo's previous films, but not so much this one.
The style of ascent was confusing also, a 'Team free ascent' so one of them free climbed each pitch, but they didn't seem to do them all in the right order and there were several pitches happening at the same time - as a climber it was tricky to figure out who was where and climbing what bit and if they were close to getting it done.
Also, a big peeve of mine with these films - the expedition is only half done when the climbing is done, and for it just to cut at the point the climbing is finished feels like half the story is missing to me.