NOVA - Everest: The Death Zone

List Price: ~~$19.95~~
Our Price: $10.46
You Save: $9.49 (48%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $8.50 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD details

Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada

DVD details

Brand: Nova
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-03-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WGBH

DVD Reviews of NOVA - Everest: The Death Zone

DVD Review: Run of the mill documentary
Summary: 3 Stars

This is a mountain climbing documentary intending to masquerade to some extent as a scientific endeavour. The mountain pictures are nice and even impressive, but the scientific subtext is between not very interesting and sometimes even laughable. The editing is fairly traditional, with lots of talking heads alternating with action and scenery. This is not bad, but there's better stuff elsewhere (touching the void for instance, which isn't a documentary but has wonderful mountain pictures and is much more thrilling at the end of the day)

DVD Review: Left me squirming
Summary: 4 Stars

There are getting to be almost as many documentaries about Mount Everest as there are dead bodies of climbers left atop the mountain. This one is distinguised by its dissection of what happens to the human body when it tries to survive in the thin air atop Everest. It left me feeling a bit nauseous. You wonder why so many risk their lives to go there. Western documentaries like this one also don't dwell on the fact that the native Sherpas are required to help the outsiders get to the top by aluminum ladders and ropes already installed. It seems kind of silly, not like the original explorers who got to the top without these aids.

DVD Review: NOVA - EVEREST: THE DEATH ZONE
Summary: 5 Stars

FASCINATING, PLUS I ORDER FROM AMAZON FOR EVERYTHING I WANT THAT IS AVAILABLE. YOU'RE GREAT!

DVD Review: The Reality of going high
Summary: 5 Stars

In a word for anyone planning on going high--ominous. The medical realities of making an attempt to climb higher than 8,000 metres are graphically illustrated in this excellent presentation.

DVD Review: Just ok
Summary: 4 Stars

I guess I am jaded because I watched the IMAX Everest video (which seems to get the best reviews) first and can't help but compare them. Still this video had some good participants i.e. Ed Viestur's and such. Interesting view point but the testing didn't do much for me but provide information. Would have liked more extra's on dvd to. All in all ok.

Description of NOVA - Everest: The Death Zone

Get ready for a (literally) breathtaking trek up Mt. Everest, from Base Camp at 17,600 feet; through the chilling, corpse-strewn Death Zone; to the very pinnacle of the the Earth, five and a half miles above sea level. For those brave souls who survive the harrowing climb to the top of the world, it is a transformative experience. But can the excruciating ascent-through frigid cold, blasting wind, blinding sun, and severe lack of oxygen-cause permanent, damaging changes to the human brain and body?

In the wake of the 1996 disaster that took eight climbers in a single day, scientists follow a team of hikers to measure, for the first time ever, the toll high-altitude climbing takes on the heart, lungs, blood, and brain. Why do seemingly rational people make poor, sometimes fatal decisions as they approach the peak? And the danger doesn't end there-as NOVA discovers during the descent, when one climber's respiratory illness takes a terrifying turn on the isolated mountainside. ''Even with the best technology, the best training,'' says team member, producer and director David Breashears, ''you can still end up frozen to death at 27,500 feet. That's what makes Everest Everest.''

Special DVD features include: scene selections; access to the Everest: The Death Zone Web site; and English subtitles.

On one DVD5 disc. Region coding: All regions. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: 4 x 3 full frame.

"Because it is there" is the reason so many men and women have risked death to climb Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on earth. NOVA follows a scientific investigation of high-altitude physiology in Everest: The Death Zone, which examines the biological and psychological changes experienced by a group of climbers during their ascent. Jodie Foster's narration accompanies the team as the NOVA photographers capture the stark, alien beauty of the mountain; the drama reaches a crescendo on the descent as it becomes unclear whether or not an ill climber will make it. Well worth watching by anyone interested in mountain climbing or the limits of human endurance, Everest: The Death Zone is at once cautionary and inspiring. --Rob Lightner

Spanish DVDs

DVD Video

Bestsellers in Spanish DVDs

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - The Second Year
Universal Studios; Release date: 2005-09-27; DVD
Best price: $30.00
Price in other shops: ~~$59.98~~

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
SONY PICTURES HOME ENT; Release date: 2009-11-03; DVD
Best price: $13.67
Price in other shops: ~~$19.94~~

The Motorcycle Diaries (Widescreen Edition)
Universal; Release date: 2005-02-15; DVD
Best price: $4.83
Price in other shops: ~~$12.98~~

The Orphanage
Warner Brothers; Release date: 2008-04-22; DVD
Best price: $2.68
Price in other shops: ~~$12.98~~

Pan's Labyrinth [Blu-ray]
Newline; Release date: 2007-12-26; DVD
Best price: $14.25
Price in other shops: ~~$35.99~~

Like Water for Chocolate
BUENA VISTA HOME VIDEO; Release date: 2000-03-14; DVD
Best price: $4.99
Price in other shops: ~~$9.99~~

Sin Nombre
Universal; Release date: 2009-09-01; DVD
Best price: $11.82
Price in other shops: ~~$29.98~~

Volver
Sony; Release date: 2007-04-03; DVD
Best price: $5.85
Price in other shops: ~~$14.94~~

Pan's Labyrinth
VERDU,MARIBEL; Release date: 2007-05-15; DVD
Best price: $3.96
Price in other shops: ~~$12.98~~

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Widescreen Edition) (Harry Potter 4)
Warner Brothers; Release date: 2006-03-07; DVD
Best price: $4.49
Price in other shops: ~~$14.98~~

Similar DVDs, VHS Video, Audio CDs

The Climb
by Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt
St. Martin's Griffin; Published: 1999-07-16; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.00
Price in other shops: ~~$16.99~~

Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
by Nick Heil
Henry Holt and Co.; Published: 2008-04-29; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $10.40
Price in other shops: ~~$26.00~~

Touching the Void
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2004-06-15; DVD
Best price: $6.31
Price in other shops: ~~$14.98~~

Russell Brice - Everest: Season 2
Everest; Release date: 2008-11-18; DVD
Best price: $12.83
Price in other shops: ~~$19.98~~

Everest: Beyond the Limit
Everest; Release date: 2007-10-16; DVD
Best price: $8.83
Price in other shops: ~~$19.99~~

NOVA: Everest
WGBH BOSTON VIDEO; Release date: 2007-06-26; DVD
Best price: $17.11
Price in other shops: ~~$29.95~~

Storm Over Everest
WGBH HOME VIDEO; Release date: 2008-09-02; DVD
Best price: $13.71
Price in other shops: ~~$24.95~~

Into Thin Air: Death on Everest
HORTON,PETER; Release date: 2001-05-22; DVD
Best price: $4.88
Price in other shops: ~~$9.95~~

National Geographic - Everest 50 Years on the Mountain
Warner Brothers; Release date: 2003-05-06; DVD
Best price: $13.14
Price in other shops: ~~$19.97~~