Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur is not one for shortcuts. As soon as he decided to make Everest, he knew he'd take on the mountain itself. Everest is a mammoth, thrilling, IMAX-sized dramatisation of the 1996 blizzard tragedy that killed eight climbers, and Kormákur wanted not only to honour the dead with authenticity, but for audiences to get as virtual an experience as possible. So up he went. After personally summiting up to 24,000ft to scout for locations, in January 2014 he took cast and crew (including Jake Gyllenhaal and Josh Brolin) to Everest base camp, filming at around 15,000ft in the harshest of conditions (the production's second unit, meanwhile, went even further, shooting almost at the peak). After Nepal they moved to Italy to film in the Dolomites which, at 10,000ft and -30°c, was no less forgiving.
By: Alex Godfrey,
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