The Fatal Game
AdventureDocumentaryDrama
8.2/10
|NZ
|en
|52 min
Release Date: 1996-05-17
Overview - In 1994, New Zealand mountaineer, Mark Whetu, summitted Mt Everest with climbing partner and friend Mike Reinberger. However it was late in the day and after a freezing night on the summit, Whetu was faced with a terrible decision...to leave Reinberger or stay with him forever.
Production Companies
Making MoviesRaytora Pty LtdOrana Films
User Reviews
Peter McGinn
10/10
This is a one-hour documentary that covers on a personal level one of the most volatile issues that come up when mountaineering is discussed, especially by non-climbers. This is the ethical and survival decisions made by people on whether to leave other climbers behind, probably to die. But this isn’t a vague case of climbers walking by a stranger in distress, perhaps pausing to urge them to co...
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