In reply to Suncream:
> Great film, I really enjoyed it, but some of the comments on YouTube are suggesting that the film has completely missed out the fact that Nims and his team summitted just hours before these guys did, breaking trail and leaving fixed ropes. Seems a bit dishonest to omit these facts.
A bit? I can handle 46min of vacuous pro babble (just) but the deliberate editing out of Nima Purjal's Sherpa team and their trail breaking and fixing above C4, through the Bottleneck to the summit is atrocious and bordering on lying-by-omission.
Contrary to the smarmy EddieBauer PR response to this in the YouTube comments, the film does include mention of other teams - when they are failing, going down or giving up - but blatantly omits all reference to others on the summit push. It gives the impression that there was no one else on the upper mountain, that those Sherpas who did all the work don't exist. They're mentioned nowhere but are the ones that made it all happen.
Ballinger is apparently the Director and Producer and should be ashamed of himself for such self-aggrandising, egotistical bullshit.
And UKC might consider better what branded content it chooses to promote.