Absolutely no sympathy

Rating: 1/10 (30 January 2020)

That idiot who said that he climbed Everest 'because it was there' should have been jeered to the rafters rather than being emulated for ever more. Was it in the way of some proper goal? Did he not know that the Earth, to scale, is as smooth as a billiard ball? Climbing Everest is a task fit for a microbe. But it is all part of the macho game; the same game that drives many people to go to war just so that they can forever hold their heads high in the camp bars of the future. This film is all the more irritating because groups of blind, disabled and other minority groups have made the ascent successfully; why focus on failures who started out with every advantage? Moaning about the deaths of these moronic show-offs somehow demeans the very concept of tragedy.