"Never let go," pleads the tagline for "Everest," a bracing depiction of an ill-fated 1996 expedition to climb the Himalayan mountain. While that likely refers to the risky exploits depicted onscreen, it could just as well serve as a mantra for woozy audiences enduring their own traumas through Baltasar Kormákur's nausea-inspiring adventure. Equal parts spectacle and harrowing survival tale, "Everest" also serves as a kind of bid for the survival of the ever-imperiled moviegoing experience, with the IMAX-enhanced thrills masterfully engineered to bring its mountain-climbing fears to horrific light. Released in the same window of time as the documentary "Meru," another depiction of climbers struggling through the vertical Himalayan landscape, "Everest" may not be the foremost realistic portrait of such a high stakes undertaking.

 

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