Vertical Limit - videos, teasers and stills from filming

All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "Vertical Limit"
Vertical Limit (2000)
Timing: 2:4 (124 min)
Vertical Limit - TMDB rating
6/10
992
Vertical Limit - Kinopoisk rating
7.079/10
34949
Vertical Limit - IMDB rating
6/10
69000

What's left behind the scenes

  • Director Martin Campbell filmed in his native New Zealand for the first time in his long career.
  • The foot of Montgomery Wick, lacking toes and appearing in one of the opening scenes, actually belonged to renowned mountaineer Mark Whetu, who lost his toes during an attempt to climb Everest in 1994.
  • Most of the stunts in the film were performed by the actors themselves.
  • Two characters in the film, Tom McLaren and Frank Williams, were named after leading Formula 1 racing teams. The second name is completely identical to the name of the founder and one of the owners of the "Williams" team, Frank Williams.
  • Filming took place from August 2nd to December 1999 in New Zealand, the USA, and Pakistan.
  • Famous American mountaineer Ed Viesturs, the eighth person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders, appeared in an episodic role in the film.
  • The need to use liquid nitroglycerin as an explosive disappeared after Alfred Nobel patented dynamite (based on nitroglycerin) in 1867.
  • Nitroglycerin does not detonate when heated.
  • Two characters in the film, Tom McLaren and Frank Williams, were named after leading Formula 1 racing teams. The second name completely coincides with the name of the founder and one of the owners of the "Williams" team, Frank Williams.
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