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David Breashears, the first American to size Everest twice, was a veteran of nine earlier Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was structured by large-format motion picture manufacturer MacGillivray Freeman Videos and comprised a global team of climbers. Their goal was to carry a specially customized forty-eight-pound IMAX motion picture camera to the summit of Everest and go back from the very best of the world with the first video footage ever taken there in this spectacular format. A stunningly illustrated family portrait of life and fatality in a hostile, high-altitude environment where no individual may survive for long, Everest invites you to become listed on Breashears, his climbers, and his crew as they make photographic history. Writer Broughton Coburn traces each step of the team's improvement toward a rendezvous with history - and instantly you're on the scene of a disaster that riveted the world's attention. Everest incorporates a first-person, on-the-scene accounts of the very most tragic event in the mountain's history: the May 10, 1996, blizzard that claimed eight lives, including two of the world's top climbing-expedition market leaders. It is a chronicle of the courage and co-operation that resulted in the rescue of several men and women who were stuck on the lethal, windswept slopes. Everest is also a tale of triumph. In challenging to overcome both physical and emotional ramifications of the devastation on Everest, Breashears and his team rose to the challenge of attaining their goal - humbled by the mountain's mind-boggling power yet exhilarated by their own fulfillment. Includes a bonus PDF with photos.
