This film is all about the harshness of climbing one of the most dangerous mountains in the world. One should expect many explicit scenes of people hurling to their deaths, dangling from ropes, ledges, rocks, roots, and mostly attached with ropes or hanging on to the hands of other people who are hanging on to whatever they can grab as the avalanche is coming or as they run from unruly explosive devices. To break down this high-speed adventure would be to explain the whole movie. Read the Violent Acts section for more details. Some guys are so rich they need to climb impossible mountains in order to impress people.
Some people are over achievers.
Vertical Limit is about one of those over-achieving thrill seekers who has everything, or at least thinks he does. Because this over-achiever would not accept having his image superimposed in front of the mountain for the sake of his new airline's brochures. I'm not giving anything away by saying that the mission is doomed from the start. The film has so much foreshadowing in the first half hour, a sixth grader could predict the entire outcome and get it right. I'll tell you right now, don't go see Vertical Limit if you hate predictable endings.