The Climb is a 2007 documentary of Laurie Skreslet

Laurie Skreslet

Laurie Skreslet is a mountaineer best known for his ascent of Mount Everest. An only child, he was born in Calgary, Alberta....

's return to Mount Everest

Mount Everest

Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain, with a peak at above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas. The international boundary runs across the precise summit point...

 after twenty-five years. On October 5, 1982, Laurie Skreslet and Pat Morrow were the first Canadians to climb Mount Everest at the cost of four dead team members.

Plot

The documentary takes Skreslet and fellow summiter Pat Morrow back to Base Camp

Everest Base Camp

There are two base camps on opposite sides of Mount Everest. South Base Camp is in Nepal at an altitude of , and North Base Camp is in Tibet at ). These camps are rudimentary campsites on Mount Everest that are used by mountain climbers during their ascent and descent...

, where they recall the traumatic and triumphant events of 1982. Pat Morrow has contracted a mystery illness that might prevent his return to the mountain. As part of the climbing party, Laurie Skreslet has brought his estranged nineteen-year-old daughter, Natasha. She has hardly seen her father in ten years. The Climb follows the events leading up to the 1982 Canadian climb of Everest. It examines the drama of the journey up the mountain as Skreslet and Morrow piece together using their emotional recollections of the events that happened twenty-five years ago, while on the trip back to Nepal and Everest's famous base camp. The film shows events as they unfolded on the mountain by using archival footage shot in 1982 while being narrated by Skreslet and Morrow.

Cast

• Laurie Skreslet
  Laurie Skreslet
  Laurie Skreslet is a mountaineer best known for his ascent of Mount Everest. An only child, he was born in Calgary, Alberta....
  
   as Himself
• Pat Morrow as Himself
• Natasha Skreslet as Herself

External links

• The Climb at Screen Door
  Screen Door
  Screen Door ' is a Canadian independent production company founded in 1999 by Mary Young Leckie and Heather Haldane. The company produces film and television....