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Sunday at 9pm on BBC2

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00103ms

That was good, emotionally very heavy and I'm thinking about those who I knew who never came back from the hills. It's a crazy and beautiful game we play.  RIP Alison and Tom.

This film made me very uncomfortable.

The daughter meeting up with that porter 20 years later and acting like he was a long lost relative. Outright blaming the Italian climbing partner for being 'obsessed'. The weird interviews with his partner.

I feel like the dad was the only glimpse of normality. 

Yes I knew Alison and it made uncomfortable viewing in that her drive was driven by situations she could not control.

Indeed. A curious mix of real emotion and what looked like calculated, how can we make a film from all this grief? I think any human knowing the most basic of the facts would empathise with all involved, so much so that the fuller story need not have be told.

I haven't watched the BBC documentary yet, but I recall watching another (titled "Tom") and it was brilliant. Worth a watch and easily found online.

Yeah, I'd seen that one, which is partly why I wanted to be sure to see this one too.

This UKC article from six years ago is also very good: https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/in_focus/starlight_and_storm_alison_har...