Everest '82

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Everest
Written by	Keith Ross Leckie
Directed by	Graeme Campbell
Starring	Eric Johnson Jason Priestley William Shatner
Theme music composer	Christopher Dedrick
Country of origin	Canada
Original language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	Randy Bradshaw Heather Haldane Jason Lee Mary Young Leckie
Editor(s)	Ralph Brunjes
Cinematography	Derick V. Underschultz
Production company(s)	Alberta Filmworks Screen Door
Distributor	Screen Door
Budget	CAD 10.5 million
Release
Original release	December 2007 (2007-12) (Germany) September 2008 (2008-09) (Canada)

Everest '82 is a Canadian drama film miniseries directed by Graeme Campbell and written by Keith Ross Leckie. It aired in the fall of 2008 on CBC television and was produced by Alberta Filmworks.

The series is based on the book Canadians on Everest: The Courageous Expedition of 1982 by Bruce Patterson of the Times-Colonist newspaper.

Plot

Everest '82 tells the true story of the first Canadians to climb Mount Everest.

The film begins with Laurie Skreslet just having lost his best friend in a climbing accident, that happened near Banff. He believes the accident was his fault. The movie then switches to an Everest expedition making its way through the dramatic Nepalese countryside approaching the mountain. The expedition leaders are already fighting, which does little to reassure the conflicted doubts Laurie has about climbing and the guilt he feels over his friend's death.

Once they are on the mountain a huge avalanche kills three of them. Two days later, a collapse of ice crushes another. Everything goes wrong, the media turns against them, the sponsors cut off supplies and tell them to come home, the mountain is too unstable. Because of this half of the climbers leave. As the rest of the climbers are about to go, Laurie reflects on the situation, digging deep within himself to find inspiration and becomes convinced he must go on. He talks a couple of them into continuing up the mountain, inspired by the ghosts of past climbers, their deaths and triumphs.^[1]

Cast

Eric Johnson as Laurie Skreslet
Jason Priestley as John Lauchlan
William Shatner as Norman Kelly
Leslie Hope as Michelle Winegate
Meredith Henderson as Marlene
John Pyper-Ferguson as Roger Marshall
Tom Rooney as Bill March
Ted Atherton as Eric Paxton
Zachary Bennett as Blair Griffiths
Michael Teigen as Dave Read
Gord Rand as Pat Morrow
Miguelito Macario Andaluz as Sungdare Sherpa(as Miguelito Macario Andaluz)

References

↑ http://www.screendoor.org/productions/drama/everest

External links

Official Everest '82 website
Everest '82 at the Internet Movie Database
CBC's Everest dramatic, but it shortchanged climbers, Bruce Patterson, Times-Colonist, 14 September 2008. Retrieved 2009-9-8.

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