Vertical Limit
Hold your breath.
Country
Production
Budget
$75 000 000
Revenue
$215 663 859
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Martin Campbell, Marcia Nasatir, Robert King, Lloyd Phillips, Lloyd Phillips, Mike Medavoy, Marcia Nasatir
Operator
Composer
Artist
Jon Bunker
Audition
Pam Dixon, Diana Rowan
Editing
Thom Noble
All team (96)
All team (96)
Short description
Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base camp for help. Brother Peter hears Annie's message and assembles a team to save her and her group before they succumb to K2's unforgiving elements. But, as Annie lays injured in an icy cavern, the rescuers face several terrifying events that could end the rescue attempt -- and their lives.
What's left behind the scenes
- Director Martin Campbell filmed in his native New Zealand for the first time in his long career.
- The foot of Montgomery Wick, lacking toes and appearing in one of the opening scenes, actually belonged to renowned mountaineer Mark Whetu, who lost his toes during an attempt to climb Everest in 1994.
- Most of the stunts in the film were performed by the actors themselves.
- Filming took place from August 2nd to December 1999 in New Zealand, the USA, and Pakistan.
- Famous American mountaineer Ed Viesturs, the eighth person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders, appeared in an episodic role in the film.
- The need to use liquid nitroglycerin as an explosive disappeared after Alfred Nobel patented dynamite (based on nitroglycerin) in 1867.
- Nitroglycerin does not detonate when heated.
- Two characters in the film, Tom McLaren and Frank Williams, were named after leading Formula 1 racing teams. The second name completely coincides with the name of the founder and one of the owners of the "Williams" team, Frank Williams.
- Most of the stunts in the movie were performed by the actors themselves.
- The two protagonists of the film, Tom McLaren and Frank Williams, were named after leading Formula 1 racing teams. The second character's name is identical to that of Frank Williams, the founder and one of the owners of the Williams team.
- The film features a cameo by the famous American climber Ed Viesturs, the eighth person to summit all 14 of the world's eight-thousand-meter peaks.
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