There has been a lot of talk about the movie North Face which is a climbing movie of note. Lots of people had seen the previews and wanted to see the movie in its full length splendor. But many adventure sport move buffs like me have been sorely disappointed by the fact that this movie was never actually released in the theaters and we had to just keep looking at the promos and be satisfied, even though the story was a bit of a wonder to us. But even when you have a film festival right in your town, and the movie is not featured in it, you realize that something is amiss.

But now the gear store REI has had it possible for me to finally see North Face. The story is that of two German climbers who set back on 1936 to climb the mountain Eiger, in the name of the Fuhrer. The story talks of the challenges and the travails that the two climbers had to face in the wake of their quest to be the very first climbers from Germany to be able to climb this select European problem of a summit. The scenes and locations are quite authentic and very realistic, not to mention that they are quite breathtaking too.

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