Vertical Limit垂直极限英文summary及影评
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On a sunny day, a father with his daughter called Annie and son called Peter is climbing a mountain.Annie is a green hand and his brother Peter has some experience.Just when they are talking happily, a disaster comes to them.Two green hands right above them falls down suddenly and the green hands knock other climbers down terribly because the safety cords are plucked.Annie, Peter and their father are all fastened to the same cord and hung in the air with Annie above, father down and Peter between them.In great dread, the father tries to calm down his children and instructs Annie to reach back to the wall.But unfortunately, the cam is moving and it is not hard enough to hold them three all.So the father tells Peter to take out a knife to cut his father loose.Annie and Peter don’t want to do it.Their father says if Peter doesn’t cut him loose, all of them will die.In great sorrow, Peter does as his father tells him.Their father sacrifices his life to rescue Annie and Peter.But the father’ death becomes Annie and Peter’s knot in their hearts all the time.Three years later, Peter Garrett comes to Lower Himalaya in Pakistan as a photographer of National Geographic.At that time Annie has become the fastest female ascent and she happens to arrive at the base camp in Himalaya last week.Annie is in a group which is to go up the mountain planned by an entrepreneur Elliot Vaughn.Vaughn is said to be a typical billionaire, sensitive, kind, modest and a bloody good climber.Peter meets Annie at the base camp.Annie tells Peter that she is determined to climb the mountain K2 with Vaughn and she admires Vaughn very much.What’s more, she wants to realize her father’s dream.The due day they climb is approaching.Peter worries about Annie’s safety but Skip Taylor says the leader Tom McLaren is familiar with the mountain and Vaughn says they have analyze the weather and that day is fine for climbing.Although an old climber Montgomery Wick asks Vaughn some challenging questions at the party before the climbing, Vaughn answers in a slippery way and earns himself others’ applause.But to be exact, the climbing is just a market campaign for Vaughn’s commercial profits.They set out as planned.When a group of three, Annie, Tom and Vaughn, climb 26000 feet high, a storm seems to come to them.Tom realizes the danger and he won’t continue going up at the risk of his life.However, Vaughn doesn’t take his advice and insists that they go up.Annie agrees with him.So Tom has no choice but to give up the idea of going down the mountain.On the other side, Peter as well as some people else find the coming storm.Then an argument begins at the base camp.Peter wishes to ask the three to stop their plan and go down instantly, but the director of the base camp doesn’t take it seriously.At last, Skip Taylor informs Tom McLaren.Vaughn and Tom argue again and at this point the terrible storm hits them.To be sad, they are stranded in a crack of the mountain and the snow storm is heavier and heavier.By Moses Code, Annie conveys the meage out to the base camp that only three people, Tom, Vaughn and her are still alive.People at the base camp seem to have no intention to rescue them since it’s too difficult and dangerous and the chance of succe is little.Although each of the climbers has a fuel can and they can melt ice and rehydrate for a day, after using up it at 26000 feet high, their lungs will fill with fluid which is called pulmonary edema and they will die within another 12 hours.Therefore, the time for their rescue is just 36 hours and it is almost impoible.
Peter doesn’t want to leave his younger sister, so he tries to organize a rescue team by himself.He decides to go up the mountain with nitroglycerin on his back.Nitroglycerin is an extremely dangerous chemical which is low-freezing and more powerful than symtex.With Skip accompanied, Peter needs four more people to join them, in pairs, one canister per team.But other people laugh at his stupid plan and think it’s suicide.After Peter’s persuasion, four brave and responsible people,
Kareem Nazir, Monique Aubertine and Malcolm Bench with his brother Cyril, agree to join.They work out their rescue project.Skip suggests that they need Montgomery Wick’s help because he once got onto the top of the mountain within 24 hours and he has been searching for his dead wife who died of a storm in the mountain four years ago.Tom has been severely sick and the word that time is life is reflected here.Annie takes care of him but Vaughn refuse to give Tom a dex out of his selfishne.He doesn’t intend to save Tom’s life because he is afraid that if Tom gets the dex, he may not have enough dexes to save his own life.Montgomery Wick doesn’t trust Vaughn’s people at base camp, so he asks Skip to return to the base camp to director for them because Skip knows the mountain best.Wick divides them into three pairs, Wick paired with Peter, Malcolm paired with Kareem and Cyril paired with Monique.The helicopter takes them to a place as high as poible.Then they have to begin the tough climb through three different routes.
Time is paing by.Tom is around the death and Annie’s health condition is getting worse and worse.She gets some spindrift in her lungs.Vaughn is still fine.But Vaughn is unwilling to give Annie dexes and he is just delaying.Wick gets through to the summit team and knows their location.There is still a long journey to reach where Annie is.During the journey, they run into lots of unimaginable difficulties.Cyril nearly slides down to the chasm when he is drinking water.He uses his ax to nail in the cliff and Monique makes every effort to drag him up at the risk of their lives.The nitroglycerin on his back falls down and inevitably causes a bombing which hurts Monique’s back.Unfortunately, shortly after Cyril is dragged up, an avalanche claims his life and Monique survives.After he knows Monique and Cyril are in danger through bleeper, Peter wants to go back to save them but stopped by Wick.Monique meets Peter with her broken finger.Peter helps her to straighten it.Malcolm grieves his brother’s death but he still keeps on climbing.After long time’s tire, they all have a rest in the sun.At this moment, the base camp tells Wick that the nitroglycerin reacts to the sun and it will blow.Wick and Peter rush to throw the pack into the shade to make the dangerous chemical out of the sun.Nearly at the same time, Peter rushes to warn Kareem and Malcolm of the danger on the radio.Those two put the pack in the shade in no time and bury it under the snow.Then they sit down to rest and no one expects that the chemical outflows from the pack gradually.The dangerous chemical is exposed to the sun soon.A great explosion occurs in a short time, which kills Kareem and Malcolm almost in a second.The powerful blast caused by the explosion blows away Peter and Wick.From the explosion, Wick finds out his dead wife in the snow.Four years ago, his wife was trapped in a storm with Vaughn.Vaughn used up the dexes himself and Wick’s wife died.Wick intends to revenge for his wife.
On the radio, Annie tries to persuade Peter into giving up his rescue plan because she and Tom just have two hours at most.During Annie’s sleep, Vaughn kills Tom secretly.When Wick wakes at dawn, he finds that Peter and Monique have started out.Through last effort, Peter reaches the crack where Annie is trapped.But he cannot ascertain the exact location.Vaughn cuts open Tom’s body to get the warm blood.They use the blood to mark their location.Peter blows open the snow crack with the nitroglycerin.He lowers down a rope to Vaughn.Vaughn ties Annie to the rope.Annie is too sick to have any strength then.Peter exerts all his strength to pull Annie up but the task seems to be too hard.Wick turns up when Peter is nearly dragged down by the rope.Wick gets down to the barranca and helps peter to pull Annie up.However, because Vaughn catches hold of the rope too, it is too heavy for Peter to pull up.In the extremely critical point, Wick takes out a knife to cut off the rope regardle of Vaughn’s shout and prevention.In the end, Annie is saved but Wick and Vaughn falls down the endle chasm.
During the thrilling rescue, Peter and Monique falls in love with each other.Annie’s health recovers gradually.Peter puts his brave and noble teammates’ deadees in the high mountain in memory their great sacrifice.
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