Using the latest high altitude video technology this Discovery Channel series tracks the gruelling attempt to reach the summit of Everest by a team of amateur climbers. It tracks the personal and mental struggles and gives a powerful insight into why the World's highest peak has claimed so many lives over the years. Marketing campaign targeting male lifestyle press and adventure/outdoor publications.
This feature-length documentary follows the explorer Bear Grylls and his friend Gilo Cardozo as they prepare to fly over the summit of Mount Everest. They will be strapped onto flimsy paraglide chutes powered by backpack motors, or paramotors as they are know to aficionados. First, Gilo must single-handedly design and build a paramotor that can fly a full 3000 metres above sea level - higher than any other has gone before. Bear takes charge of their survival strategy. The pair face temperatures of -40°C that will instantly freeze exposed flesh, hurricane-force winds that threaten to dash them against the mountain peaks, and very low levels of oxygen. As the day of the flight approaches, they face the reality of the challenge ahead and are beset with machine troubles, failed test flights and a damaged engine. At his lowest ebb, Bear has some uncharacteristic doubts: 'I'd always planned this project to be ambitious but safe; the bottom line is it's ambitious but it's not safe.' Have the pair aimed too high?
