Change Your Image
robin-dibblee
Reviews
Survival on the Mountain (1997)
The worst movie of all time
This film is priceless but also needs a public health warning. Supposedly a rescue drama in the Himalayas, director and crew have obviously never gone further afield than Banff. It is not clear why the rescue was necessary. The weather is fine - the action is always below the tree-line (difficult in the Himalayas). There is a lot of falling over by the US actors and endless ridiculous incongruities. A mountaineering accident (British flag, obviously) but with ski poles?! A blood orange for nourishment (not a native Nepalese fruit). Rescue workers 100 yards away that require an unsuccessful mountain range trek to pursue. The storyline is pathetically racist and I hope Nepalese guides drop US customers down crevasses in retaliation. Except there is no storyline. US leads spurn head-covering but end up with frostbite in hands rather than ears. US Embassy is threatened and helicopters (with US pilots, no doubt diverted from Iraq) abound. An insult to anybody's intelligence. Do NOT view!