EVEREST (12A) - Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur heads for the highest peak on Earth for a gripping drama based on true events, which cast a deathly shadow over the mountaineering community in 1996.Penned by William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy, award-winning scribes of Gladiator and Slumdog Millionaire, Everest is a slickly orchestrated recreation of an ill-fated ascent to 29,029 feet above sea level, where altitude sickness silently stalks the most experienced climbers.From this literally...
