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Vertical Limit
Vertical Limit is a 2000 American survival thriller film directed by Martin Campbell, written by Robert King, and starring Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, and Scott Glenn. The film was released on December 8, 2000, in the United States by Columbia Pictures, receiving mixed reviews and grossed $215 million at the box office.
The plot follows a rescue attempt on K2, the second-highest mountain in the world, after a team of climbers are trapped in a crevasse.
The film was the third collaboration between Campbell and actor Stuart Wilson, after No Escape (1994) and The Mask of Zorro (1998).
While rock climbing in Monument Valley, a freak accident puts adult siblings Peter and Annie and their father Royce Garrett in a deadly situation. To save his children, Royce verbally pushes Peter into cutting his safety rope, causing Royce to fall to his death.
Three years later, Peter has retired from climbing and works for National Geographic, while Annie has become a renowned mountaineer. Their relationship is strained, as Annie blames Peter for their father's death. Peter reunites with Annie at the K2 base camp, where she is planning a summit attempt, as part of an expedition funded by billionaire Elliot Vaughn. Their team is led by renowned climber Tom McLaren.
The night before the climb, Vaughn throws a party, where he is criticized by respected climber Montgomery Wick. It's later revealed that Wick's wife, an expedition guide, died during Vaughn's previous expedition. Vaughn claims they were hit by a storm and Wick's wife died of pulmonary edema because her supply of dexamethasone (or "dex") was swept away. Wick doesn't believe that story and has been trying to find his wife's body.
Vaughn's team begins their K2 summit attempt but are warned of an approaching storm. McLaren wants to turn back, but Vaughn convinces him to continue. An avalanche traps Annie, Vaughn and McLaren in a crevasse, while the other two people in their group are killed. Radio contact is lost, but Annie uses Morse code through static to signal that the trio are alive. Peter assembles a rescue team of climbers, split into three pairs; himself and Wick, Kareem, a cousin of one of the summit team, and Malcolm, one of two brothers to have submitted before and hang around base camp, and Monique, base camp’s nurse who joins for the monetary reward, and Cyril, Malcolm’s brother. After a treacherous helicopter drop-off, each pair takes a different path to increase the chances of success. They also carry canisters of explosive nitroglycerine, donated by the Pakistani army, to clear the entrance to the crevasse.
When Cyril loses his balance at the edge of a cliff, Monique attempts to rescue him. Their nitro canister falls over the cliff and explodes, causing another avalanche and killing Cyril. At the military station, the nitroglycerine canisters are exposed to sunlight and also explode. Base camp tells the rescue teams to get their cases of nitro into the shade, which Kareem and Malcolm do, but their canister leaks fluid and explodes anyway, killing them both. Monique then joins Peter and Wick's team.
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Vertical Limit
Vertical Limit is a 2000 American survival thriller film directed by Martin Campbell, written by Robert King, and starring Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, and Scott Glenn. The film was released on December 8, 2000, in the United States by Columbia Pictures, receiving mixed reviews and grossed $215 million at the box office.
The plot follows a rescue attempt on K2, the second-highest mountain in the world, after a team of climbers are trapped in a crevasse.
The film was the third collaboration between Campbell and actor Stuart Wilson, after No Escape (1994) and The Mask of Zorro (1998).
While rock climbing in Monument Valley, a freak accident puts adult siblings Peter and Annie and their father Royce Garrett in a deadly situation. To save his children, Royce verbally pushes Peter into cutting his safety rope, causing Royce to fall to his death.
Three years later, Peter has retired from climbing and works for National Geographic, while Annie has become a renowned mountaineer. Their relationship is strained, as Annie blames Peter for their father's death. Peter reunites with Annie at the K2 base camp, where she is planning a summit attempt, as part of an expedition funded by billionaire Elliot Vaughn. Their team is led by renowned climber Tom McLaren.
The night before the climb, Vaughn throws a party, where he is criticized by respected climber Montgomery Wick. It's later revealed that Wick's wife, an expedition guide, died during Vaughn's previous expedition. Vaughn claims they were hit by a storm and Wick's wife died of pulmonary edema because her supply of dexamethasone (or "dex") was swept away. Wick doesn't believe that story and has been trying to find his wife's body.
Vaughn's team begins their K2 summit attempt but are warned of an approaching storm. McLaren wants to turn back, but Vaughn convinces him to continue. An avalanche traps Annie, Vaughn and McLaren in a crevasse, while the other two people in their group are killed. Radio contact is lost, but Annie uses Morse code through static to signal that the trio are alive. Peter assembles a rescue team of climbers, split into three pairs; himself and Wick, Kareem, a cousin of one of the summit team, and Malcolm, one of two brothers to have submitted before and hang around base camp, and Monique, base camp’s nurse who joins for the monetary reward, and Cyril, Malcolm’s brother. After a treacherous helicopter drop-off, each pair takes a different path to increase the chances of success. They also carry canisters of explosive nitroglycerine, donated by the Pakistani army, to clear the entrance to the crevasse.
When Cyril loses his balance at the edge of a cliff, Monique attempts to rescue him. Their nitro canister falls over the cliff and explodes, causing another avalanche and killing Cyril. At the military station, the nitroglycerine canisters are exposed to sunlight and also explode. Base camp tells the rescue teams to get their cases of nitro into the shade, which Kareem and Malcolm do, but their canister leaks fluid and explodes anyway, killing them both. Monique then joins Peter and Wick's team.