14 Peaks Documentary

[WVMountaineer]

For those of you with Netflix, there's a new documentary streaming called "14 Peaks Nothing Is Impossible." It's about Nims Purja climbing all fourteen 8,000 meter peaks in 7 months. Pretty insane and humbling stuff! I'm including the trailer below.

[bmcqueen]

Watched it Tuesday night. Crazy stuff!

[Ed_Groves]

I watched it Tuesday night too. It is an amazing feat to climb all 14 in less than seven months! Unfortunately, and this is just an opinion, fitting this story of climbing the fourteen 8000 meter peaks into a movie doesn't provide enough time to really cover the climb of each peak. It was essentially a summary and I don't think this amount of material can be covered adequately in the timeframe of a movie.

[LetsGoMets]

Nims is amazing. I felt like I was watching his journey unfold in real time on Instagram when it was happening. Truly the most elite of the elite climbing big peaks these days, and I'm so stoked Netflix/Chin&Chai put this together.

[Salient]

I watched it Tuesday night too. It is an amazing feat to climb all 14 in less than seven months! Unfortunately, and this is just an opinion, fitting this story of climbing the fourteen 8000 meter peaks into a movie doesn't provide enough time to really cover the climb of each peak. It was essentially a summary and I don't think this amount of material can be covered adequately in the timeframe of a movie.

Depends how long the movie is. If it's like 5 or 6 hours long then you probably could do a pretty good job.

[Salient]

For those of you with Netflix, there's a new documentary streaming called "14 Peaks Nothing Is Impossible." It's about Nims Purja climbing all fourteen 8,000 meter peaks in 7 months. Pretty insane and humbling stuff! I'm including the trailer below.

I remember this story, you can bet I'll be sure to watch it.

[WVMountaineer]

fitting this story of climbing the fourteen 8000 meter peaks into a movie doesn't provide enough time to really cover the climb of each peak.

It's not a movie for us, it's to show the world what amazing Nepalese climbers can achieve and for them to be recognized for their efforts as more than just sherpas. I found myself rewinding and pausing often to absorb more of certain scenes. I wouldn't mind if there were extended films produced for each peak but the common person isn't going to watch a technical climbing film like that.

[d_baker]

I started watching it, but honestly I'm not a fan.
We partied in Katmandu yesterday, kinda hungover, but here we are, gonna send this because giving up is not in the bloood, it's not in the blood.
(Not an exact accurate quote...)

I'll finish watching it though.

[nyker]

We watched it this week. Some amazing photography and no doubting their accomplishments, O2 or not, amazing...but I think this would be been done better as a series like other Netflix shows. So much information and just too much was quickly glossed over or skipped and suddenly they were on another summit.

I'd love to see it play longer and go into the peaks, the climbers and experience more rather than showing them partying and dancing then 2 minutes later on a summit again. Maybe one intro episode, one to develop the characters of the climbers and then one episode per peak. I'm am sure there is some great unique information within their stories plus more footage that would be cool to watch.

[cedica]

... giving up is not in the bloood, it's not in the blood.

"In the death zone, I come alive."

[susanjoypaul]

Watched it twice already, alone and with a friend I talked into watching with me. Incredible! If Netflix had made it a series, most people wouldn't have watched because it would be too long, for the subject matter, to hold the average TV-watcher's interest and it wouldn't have accomplished Nims's goal of acknowledging Nepalese mountaineers and raising their platform to the international stage - showing them as people who are true high-altitude mountaineers rather than just Sherpas, and not in the ethnic sense of the word. Many still refer to "Sherpa" as "some unnamed dude who helped carry my stuff when I conquered the mountain."

Just getting the film footage must have been extremely difficult, especially considering the timeline and conditions these guys climbed in. It's not like you're going to stop to capture extended videos or even many photos in the middle of a blizzard at 8,000 meters. Or when avalanches are crashing down around you. They probably had limited usable footage.

He's absolutely correct when he says that if a Western climber had climbed all those peaks in record time, it would have been all over the news worldwide. As it were, unless you were on a mountaineering forum or social media, you didn't hear a thing about it.

Nice to see Reinhold Messner, Conrad Anker, and Jimmy Chin weigh in. (Speaking of Jimmy Chin, there was a short bit on the national news the other night about his young daughter climbing the Grand Teton, and I could have sworn they called it a 14,000-foot peak but I wasn't really paying attention - making dinner. Did anyone else happen to see that, and was I imagining things?)

[Mtnman200]

He's absolutely correct when he says that if a Western climber had climbed all those peaks in record time, it would have been all over the news worldwide. As it were, unless you were on a mountaineering forum or social media, you didn't hear a thing about it.

Susan is 100% right about this.