by Walter Chaw Beginning with stock
footage of mountain climbing and a wholly unexpected (and unwelcome) reference to Hudson Hawk, Extreme Limits (formerly Crash Point Zero) is a micro-budgeted neo-Corman knock - off that boasts of an admirably irresponsible body count and a script so ludicrous that, once it's deadened your senses (after about five minutes), it actually gets sort of funny.
Perhaps the film is too insider in its production to translate well to audiences who aren't familiar with the hows and
whys of mountain climbing, as it never delves particularly deep as to the motivation for such extreme determination for these specific men to do what they do.
Unlike Walter, whose entire life unfolds on the screen, Cheryl has a life that exists
outside of mountain climbing, helicopter jumping and escaping from volcanoes.
But the most interesting workstation artifacts are the ones that tell about the person whose workstation it is —
snapshots of a mountain climbing trip, magazine cutouts of small airplanes, photos of celebrity heartthrobs like Josh Hartnett and Angelina Jolie, and stuffed monkeys and lizards.
For those craving some air beneath the feet, Kicking Horse's new via ferrata gives people a
taste of mountain climbing without the arsenal of equipment, skill and experience normally required to scale peaks.
The domineering installation of «Background Story: Landscape Painted on the Double Ninth Festival» (2013) highlights the artist's contemporary reinterpretation of a hanging scroll from the Qing Dynasty that depicts the festival
tradition of mountain climbing on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month.