New Brashears video on Everest 1996

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Posted by Bill S on May 12, 2008 at 5:38:20 pm EDT

PBS's Frontline program is running the new video by Dave Brashears on the 1996 Everest incident starting tomorrow May 13. Nominal time is 9PM Eastern. My local station KQED runs it at 10PM-midnight both on the old-school standard broadcast and HD (1080p) channels, then a half dozen repeats, including the "encore" digital channel. I haven't checked the other local PBS channels yet, but expect that KTEH will also show it. Gotta learn how to use my HD recorder, I guess (don't really watch enough to justify it, but gotta keep up with all the widgets).

Brashears is an excellent film maker and will, I'm sure, have the straight story with none of the "EXTREME! RISKY!" hype. The on-line preview and discussion on Frontline's site has a number of the central players giving interviews. It says that Brashears and crew went back in 2007 to recreate some parts.

If this starts another of the "real tv" discussions, I will ask Dave to move this thread to Off-Topic. But as long as people stick to rational discussion. I will vote to have it stay here. So none of the "what idiots to climb such a dangerous mountain" stuff, ok?

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