Everest: The Other Side 2026 Movie Review Trailer
"Because it’s there"—this is the famous, possibly apocryphal, response attributed to British mountaineer George Mallory when asked why he wanted to climb Everest. Unlike contemporary mountaineer Jim Morrison, Mallory had no intention of skiing down it. But isn’t that same evasive answer still valid? What drives certain people to undertake such reckless, dangerous, and near-impossible feats? If they simply *can* do it, *should* they? These are the questions that will likely occupy the minds of many viewers as they watch *Everest: The Other Side*—a visually stunning, and ostensibly poignant, documentary about Morrison, his late partner Hilaree Nelson, and their shared dream of ski-mountaineering on Everest—an adventure that ultimately cost Nelson her life. However, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin—the (formerly married) duo who won an Oscar for the dizzying spectacle of *Free Solo*, their 2018 film about the equally ambitious and daring climber Alex Honnold—address the...