And now Dr. Kamler has added one more to that list. Last night he went to the movies. The last film I saw was Everest , the IMAX movie, 'cause, um, I was in that. The film that lured Kamler into a theater this time was Vertical Limit , the rock 'em-sock 'em action flick starring Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, and Scott Glenn. The team hauls nitroglycerin up the mountain for poorly explained reasons.
Bad things happen.
Stuff blows up. People fall down. I think there were parts of Vertical Limit that were pretty gripping, but the story requires a suspension of disbelief that's greater than the height of K2. The NASA expeditions were very well funded, but we didn't have anywhere near the helicopters, computer stations, and throngs of champagne-drinking party people that the millionaire brought up to that base camp. Base camp in the movie looked like a cross between Mission Control and Mardis Gras.