Best film I have seen in years, moved me to tears. Definatly worth watching if you havnt seen it.

Good innit?

Yep, great film.

awesome!!

read the book. puts a whole different spin on the relationship with his parents.
ace film. ace book.

Aye, is a great film.

happiness is not happiness unless its shared

I liked it as well, would be good to read the book to see other angles of the story.

Yes a great film – but iirc in real life wasnt he a complete nutter?

not according to the book. the press generally portrayed him as being a nutter hell bent on self distruction for going out there in the first place. krakuer belived this not to be the case.
the ironic thing was that if he’d wallked up river a mile or so he would have come accross a zip wire over the river with a cage attached to it to carry hunters over the river.

If you haven’t read the book, it’s great. Krakuer’s Into Thin Air is also excellent and reveals a lot about the problems/dangers of over crowding on Everest.

i like krakuers books but theyre not a patch on joe simpsons.read them all at least once. hes crackers!
sorry to go off topic.
alexander supertramp ftw.

cracking film, really quite moving….i am going to read the book next to make a comparison – he was certainly a selfish *wat if not to his whole family, certainly to his sister – whom he obviously cared for according to the film….

it freaks me out to look on google maps to see that bus there….i also heard that there is a river crossing further on about 1 mile, surprised he didnt know about this given he had obviously been in and around the area for some time!

cracking film though im going to watch it again this weekend…

my mates doing something similar at the moment, hes turned into a bit of a maverick type person – ditched his phone, can only get him via letter 😆 he doesnt now contact anyone, hes goes on mad missions for days on end…no body knows if hes alive or dead half the time…then he suddenly turns up at the pub out of no where 😆 obviously not the same, but since watching this his outlook on life has become stress free, and when hes had enough just does one

With that beard and his fondness for the outdoors all he was missing was asingle speed and he could have been a fully fledged STW member

Great soundtrack by Eddie Veder as well.

Very inspiring film. Love the bit where he kayaks down the river after being told about the 10 year waiting list

i know all the rules but the rules do not know me

When eveything gets too much and I feel like ending it all, I think of Alexander Supertramp and remember that, if it really came to it, I could just wander off into the wild for a few years and NOT have to top myself. If you’ve got to the point of not caring, head for the hills and to hell with the consequences. That thought alone I often find is enough to life my mood – knowing that there’s a way out. Hence I find his story wonderfully inspiring.

Anyway, that’s how the book and film affected me. Some might say he was selfish, and he was definitely naïve, but I wish I had his balls.

Perhaps a trip out on a mountain bike is our mini-version of his adventures.

it freaks me out to look on google maps to see that bus there.

anybody have a link to google maps showing the bus ?

Eric from Revelate / Epic went out there.

Full story and pics at http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=422085

tis creepy that – to think he ‘shacked’ up in it for months on end with his own little living space..

tis a great film, and it is very very inspiring to see someone at such a young age do something that goes against modern life – obviously had not much of a loving upbriging and became very disillusioned by money/material type things from such a young age, when most people are just discovering themselves at college/uni…

hats off to him, i do wonder if he would have just continued to live that life forever, he didnt really have much interest in anything other than being ‘in the wild’….

great film looking forward to the book now!

Krakuer’s Into Thin Air is also excellent

1 of my favourite books and i’m not remotely into climbing. Also love Joe simpsons ‘The beckoning silence’ (the last scene in the docu/film is breathtaking)

Not seen the film but talking of goin away from it all reminds me of my old army mate , when he left the army he bought an old bus and went of with his bike, canoe, skis and bagpipes touring the world living like a tramp 😉 bus gave up the ghost in Africa some place so he jacked it up and stuck in on pallets and lived in it for nearly two years. He gave it to the locals to use in the end and travelled to Brussels where we hooked up again and partied for six months . He then went off to work in whistler in a bar but sacked it as it was too busy and he walked off into the wilderness of Canada after giving most of his belongings away and I’ve not heard from him since. Hope hes still having fun where ever he is 😉

Yes a great film – but iirc in real life wasnt he a complete nutter? wasn’t he an intelligent and free thinking chap?

which I guess often amounts to the same thing in some sectors..

Thank you for the MTBR link. Truly inspiring. 🙂

Wonderful film, inspirational chap. Can’t wait to start reading the book 🙂

The music was awesome too.

best film in years.

I saw the first half flying back from africa. They shut the film off as we came into land.

So went home and told Mrs Bikemonger about this really uplifting and liberating film… ordered the dvd.

sat down with dog and Mrs, some wine, and watched the uplifting first half, and the soooo sad second half. I was devistated.

Read the book and only got half way through the film.

Found him selfish and stupid and had no interest in if he lived or died.

He just didn’t respect nature and got bitten for it like so many others before and since

Uncanny, I just got the film this morning.
Looking forward to watching tonight….

+1 for Into Thin Air

ajf + 100

ajf + 200

I came away with the same thought.. Had an argument with a mate of mine who thought he was great and i said he was selfish to put his family through all that

If you read Into Thin Air then read The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev as well. Two sides to every story.

Just watched this and thought It was absolutely brilliant, very moving especially when the old guy asks to adopt him at the end.

The quote he writes at the end “Happiness is only real when shared” Is probably one of the truest things I’ve read in a long time. The soundtrack Is ace as well.

If you read Into Thin Air then read The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev as well. Two sides to every story

Definitely agree. Krakuer’s book, whilst excellent, is very one sided – Boukreev’s version of events gives another angle to the disaster that year and is also a superb and interesting read.

Lent the climb to a mate and he left it in France. great book , he ended up dying in the mountains one Christmas iirc RIP 🙁

Found him selfish and stupid and had no interest in if he lived or died.

I agree, but this isn’t a critcism of the film or story is it? he wasn’t preseneted as a hero or someone we should look up to.

thats what i though anyway.

He just didn’t respect nature and got bitten for it like so many others before and since

He had too little respect for the people who cared for him maybe, but I never felt he did not respect nature. Many people go “into the wild” for an hour, a day, a week, a month, whatever with all the experience, respect and preparedness possible, but nature can still find a way to defeat them.

Respect is a subjective and personal thing. One person’s respect is another’s risk. Whilst my respect for nature means I wouldn’t take the same risks as many others, that doesn’t make them any less respectful of nature.

PS Love the film and the book

Bump , back on film 4 tonight at 9. Great movie.

Just noticed this. Great stuff not seen before so looking forward to it!

I thought it was bad, unpreparedness is fatal.