Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (1997)
An adaptation of Jon Krakauer's best selling book, "Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster". This movie attempts to re-create the disastrous events that took place during the Mount Everest climb on May 10, 1996. It also follows Jon Krakauer throughout the movie, and portrays what he was going through while climbing this mountain.
- Released
- 1997-11-09
- Genres
- Adventure, Action, Drama
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Robert Markowitz
- TMDB rating
- 5.4/10 from 36 votes
Cast
- Peter Horton as Scott Fischer
- Nathaniel Parker as Rob Hall
- Richard Jenkins as Beck Weathers
- Christopher McDonald as Jon Krakauer
- Tim Dutton as Andy Harris
- Pamela Gien as Sandy Hill Pittman
- Peter J. Lucas as Anatoli Boukreev
- Long Nguyen as Ang Dorje
- Jeff Perry as Doug Hansen
- Ned Vaughn as Neal Beidelman
- Akemi Otani as Yasuko Namba
- Richard Rees as Lopsang Sherpa