The Mount Everest True Story vs. ‘Everest’ The movie is not an exact account of the real events, but it was based on real-life accounts of the harrowing incident.

Is “Everest” a True Story? ... Ultimately, a total of eight hikers didn't survive, though only five are portrayed in the movie. Who died in the 1996 Everest disaster? AP Photo/Karin Laub.

Everest is a partial adaptation of Beck Weathers’ memoir Left For Dead: My Journey Home From Everest, and his true story is every bit as gripping as the big-screen reworking.

Everest recounts the real-life story of the May 10, 1996 trek to the top of the world's highest peak — a day that would become the deadliest in its history. (That record has sadly since been ...

Though Jason Clarke and Jake Gyllenhaal lead an A-list cast in Everest, the real star of the 2015 movie is the mountain itself.Located in the Himalayas near the China-Nepal border, Mount Everest ...

Released in 2015, “Everest” tells the harrowing true story of the disaster that occurred on Mount Everest in 1996, where a group of climbers faced a brutal storm near the summit.

The new movie “Everest” is based on the deadly 1996 Everest climb, but is it accurate? Outside Magazine’s contributing editor Nick Heil, the author of “Dark Summit: The True Story of ...

Of all the possible reasons to see Everest, "because it's there" shouldn't be one. This isn't the multiplex thrill ride moviegoers might expect after snowbound disaster flicks they've seen before ...

If we're being brutally honest here, it's pretty clear that few of we mere mortals will likely ever suck in a lungful of the thin, rarified air of even the lower slopes of Mount Everest, much less ...

This photo provided by Universal Pictures shows, Jake Gyllenhaal in a scene from the film “Everest."(Jasin Boland / Universal Pictures via AP) A feeling of tragic inevitability hangs over the ...

Even if you're familiar with the events of that fateful day in 1996, however, "Everest" still packs a punch with its powerful and at times heartbreaking real-life story of man vs. nature -- and ...