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today to a 2000 american survival
thriller film called vertical limit
before we start be aware there are
spoilers
the movie opens with the scene of an
eagle soaring through monument valley in
the u.s peter is taking photographs he
is climbing a mountain with a team that
includes his sister annie and his father
annie and peter are singing songs and
trying to guess the title artist and the
year their father is giving annie a
lecture about climbing safety when
suddenly the amateur climbers above them
fall to their death dragging the family
off the mountain face annie's cam is the
only one holding them up but her father
realizes that it can't hold them all he
instructs peter to cut the rope and let
him fall in order to save peter and his
sister they argue but eventually peter
does it and his father's stricken body
hits the ground three years later in the
lower himalayas peter is photographing
some big cats fighting in the snow
whilst trekking his porter is distracted
by some thunder and he trips injuring
his leg on a rock he is taken away by
helicopter where the pilot tells him
that his sister arrived last week he
explains that annie is leading a
documentary crew up the mountain this
crew belongs to the billionaire eliot
vaughan who escaped death four years ago
when he was a part of a team that tried
to scale the south face
they got 800 meters from the summit when
the weather closed in they spent 24
hours in the death zone but the next
morning vaughn walked down the mountain
he is deemed to be a bloody good climber
the helicopter lands amongst a lot of
tents and people annie is being told
about an imminent cyclone when peter
walks into her tent annie seems
surprised to see him and pete says that
their father would be proud of her
annie's team plans to leave the
following day peter questions annie
about von's motivations away from the
main group we are introduced to two
brothers malcolm and cyril who are
sitting drinking naked in the snow as
two helicopters fly overhead people
clamor to see the new arrivals vonn and
his team he is welcomed by frank a
veteran climber who has climbed the
mountain five times already peter enters
a tent looking for the base commander
skip instead he meets monique who is
going through letters and seems rather
frustrated she is the base camp manager
and a medic she directs peter outside
where he meets skip he tells peter that
vaughn is climbing to a deadline as he
is launching a new airline called
majestic air and wants to stand at the
top of k2 as the inaugural flight passes
overhead
skip is a little frustrated as he has
the job to guide the producer up the
mountain that night there is a huge
party vaughn interrupts to make a speech
outlining his plans and introducing his
guide tom mclaren however he is
interrupted by a strange old man warning
about the weather up the mountain vaughn
is confident in tom's ability and the
party continues the following day we see
the old man walk away up the mountain
alone annie is on her computer when
peter enters they discuss the old man
montgomery wick a season climber who
managed to reach the summit in 24 hours
we learned that after their father's
death peter didn't climb again or visit
his grave and he continues to climb in
order to feel closer to him
von sets off in a helicopter with tom
and a porter named ali ali is saying
goodbye to his brother karim and he
leaves in the second helicopter as peter
watches
peter then helps skip load a third
helicopter as skip assures him that his
sister will be okay later that day as
vaughn and his team are climbing tom
looks nervously towards the peak as he
realizes that the weather is getting bad
vaughn with annie's agreement insists on
continuing peter is ready to leave frank
is in the monitoring station realizing
that the weather is getting bad peter
demands to know why they are not turning
back frank uses the radio to contact tom
to tell him to turn back but bond still
insists on continuing a short time later
the weather is really bad and annie
slips down a crevice dragging the rest
of the team along tom manages to stop
them using his axe everyone is okay but
suddenly there's an avalanche vaughn
falls down the crevice with annie and as
snow thunders towards him tom also jumps
down into the crevice the rest of the
team are killed in the avalanche but
vaughn annie and tom are buried in a
cave tom is badly injured and the radios
have really poor reception peter
suddenly has the idea to send a message
using morse code as his father made them
learn it as kids peter explains the
situation to the people at base camp and
they all cheer for the survivors
kareem is sad as he realizes that his
brother ali is probably dead peter
proposes a rescue team but is met with
little enthusiasm skip explains that
it's crazy to mount a rescue as there is
probably only a 36 hour window to save
him peter remembers that montgomery wick
made it up the mountain in 24 hours they
go to meet colonel salim who unlocks a
case of highly explosive nitroglycerin
for them to take up the mountain to help
them with the rescue he reminds them
that this is not authorized by the
pakistani government and turns to leave
skip is about to take a canister when
major rasool realizes that a container
has leaked over skip's boot they
carefully remove his boot and throw it
far into the snow the nitroglycerin
covered boot then explodes on contact
with the ground meanwhile peter
addresses the crowd he wants four more
people to make a team with him and skip
kareem malcolm and cyril agree to join
him up the mountain we see that tom is
seriously ill von lays out a schedule
for survival including when they will
drink the water and inject themselves
with a drug called dex their last known
coordinates are sent to the rescue team
skip and peter try to make a plan but
realize they will need help from wick he
was a part of the rescue team four years
ago but his wife was in that group and
he was unable to find her he often goes
up the mountain to this day looking for
her body the group of five leave with
three containers of nitroglycerin as
they enter the helicopter monique is
waiting for them and will also join them
annie and vaughn discuss tom's condition
von drops some supplies but spots a
backpack down a crevice the helicopter
lands near wick's tent but he is not
interested in helping when skip tells
him that vonn's people are paying five
hundred thousand dollars to anyone
willing to join the rescue team he is
convinced but he wants skip to return to
base camp as he wants someone there that
he can trust
although skip protest he does agree the
team is split into three groups of two
who will all take different routes the
helicopter takes the team as high as
they can until the weather is too bad
they begin to jump from the helicopter
peter and wick are last as the
helicopter encounters engine trouble
they slip and only just manage to hold
on wick saves peter from falling they
all manage to jump to safety and the
helicopter flies away
tom's condition is deteriorating rapidly
and he wants to inject him with decks
now but vaughn insists that they stick
to the schedule as he thinks that tom is
a lost cause annie insists that von go
tell him tom thinks that he is asking
him to die but vaughn says that he is
condemning him and annie to death
otherwise malcolm and kareem are taking
one path up the mountain kareem stops to
pray to allah whilst malcolm scoffs
at base camp skip radio's wick informing
him that they have 48 hours of good
weather wick is climbing with peter and
tells him that he needs to climb faster
a brief argument ensues and wick almost
threatens to go back peter nearly falls
and wick saves him he tells peter that
he did the right thing by cutting his
father's rope reconciled they continue
vaughn notices that annie is bleeding
and is contracting edema he then tells
wick to inform peter about it that will
make him go faster tom tells vaughn that
annie should have some decks but again
he insists on sticking to the schedule
annie tells bond that if they want to
survive they need to retrieve the
backpack that they saw earlier
monique and cyra are climbing together
he slips in the snow but manages to use
his axe to stop himself falling off a
cliff monique races to help him but the
cliff edge is starting to break monique
manages to hook his axe with some rope
just as the cliff breaks now her axe is
holding them both to the side of the
cliff she swings so that cyril can reach
a ledge and after some attempts he
reaches safety but the container of
nitroglycerin falls from his pack they
hurriedly try to climb the cliff face
but as the nitroglycerin hits the ground
it explodes and causes a landslide
inside the cave the explosion causes
annie to fall but vaughn catches her
monique is calling for cyril and he
appears at the top of the cliff face he
has managed to climb out however the
explosion causes an avalanche and he has
swept off the cliff to his death peter
wants to go back to help them but wick
believes that they could be dead annie
however is not annie has retrieved the
pack it belonged to kareem's brother ali
she uses the decks in his pack for
herself and tom as vaughn looks on
disapprovingly monique continues to
climb the cliff face she meets up with
peter who helps to set the bones in her
broken finger malcolm is distraught that
his brother could be dead but elects to
continue anyway at base camp we see some
nitroglycerin that has been left exposed
to the sunlight it then explodes
violently killing colonel salim skip
radios the team with the news
peter's team gets the nitroglycerin into
the shade monique tries to radio malcolm
but their radio is switched off peter
tries to find them and they finally get
the message however in their race to get
their nitroglycerin into the shade they
do not realize that the container has
cracked the nitroglycerin leaks down
through the snow into the sunlight and
explodes causing an avalanche a body is
uncovered that is wick's wife wick
reveals that she was on van's team on
his previous expedition when he finds
that her supply of decks is missing he
realizes that vaughn must have stolen it
for himself and caused her death peter
realizes that wick is looking for
revenge
that night annie radios peter and tells
him that there is no hope and he should
go back they share a tender moment as
monique listens in later while annie
rests von injects himself with dex and
then murders tom the next morning wick
is ready to leave but finds that peter
and monique have already left without
him annie discovers that tom is dead and
attacks vaughn this causes some snow to
fall and a gap is revealed to the
surface above them they attempt to pass
something through the gap to attract
attention to the rescue group von drains
some of tom's blood into a bag which
they send up and it explodes onto the
snow above them peter and monique see
the blood on the snow and drop a note
down the gap warning them that there
will be an explosion they pour some
nitroglycerin and set a detonator the
explosion widens the gap and a rope
system is set up to pull annie through
the hole by now she is almost
unconscious and they almost drop her but
wick arrives just in time to secure
peter and monique wake goes down into
the cave to confront vaughn who tries to
attack him with an axe he nearly falls
but wick saves him and attaches them to
his rope for safety they continue to try
to pull annie up to safety but the
equipment becomes loose and they all
nearly slide into the crevice
wick cuts the rope and he and von plunge
to their death allowing the others to
escape
some hours later at base camp monique is
attending to annie she kisses peter and
leaves him to reconcile with the sister
the movie ends with peter paying his
respects to those who died on k2
including montgomery wick and his wife
brothers kareem ali and tom malcolm and
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