Aside from a few scrapes and bruises - mostly his own - there were no injuries. Gilbey also pointed out that shooting would have been challenging in any given year, but due to climate change - and, subsequently melting snow and falling rocks-extra precautions were taken to ensure everybody’s safety. The society has no funerals, no grieving. And nobody was pissed off they had to do it. Because the World State wishes to minimize discomfort while maximizing happiness and security, people are taught to view death casually. But I'm a climber myself, so I don't want to put a lot of nonsense in there. “One of the reasons the climbing comes off very well in the film is because we had incredibly good climbers whom I used as technical advisors. “Ryan was really keen to do it,” Gilbey noted. Ryan Philippe took rock and ice climbing in Italy. Gilbey said all the actors trained only with the best climbers. Although the terrain is lower, it has all sorts of brilliant rock climbing and very similar mountainous terrain to parts of the Alps.” “We trained him in Snowdonia National Park in North Wales. “For all intents and purposes, out of all the actors, Freddie Thorp, who plays Michael, became a mountaineer during this shoot,” Gilbey said. train the actors to get along with their “costar?” A film where nature is the biggest star ups the ante. Shooting any movie is filled with challenges. There was only one film company that said, ‘Yeah, okay. There’s an inherent artificiality to a shot. You’ve seen a lot of films - and very big-budget films - that use a computer backdrop. ‘You know,’ I thought, ‘there's a story here.’ But the thing is, if you've been up to those vistas, it's very difficult to fake it. “The first time I stood on top of The Eiger or The Matterhorn back in 2011, a silly little thought started niggling in my head. Gilbey had been a climber for many years. The genesis of the film happened - of course - on top of a mountain. With no rescue in sight, the gang is forced to trust each other, saving themselves using any means necessary to survive. What begins as a daring dream to scale the world's most challenging trio of mountains quickly swerves into a seemingly inescapable nightmare when a group of friends become trapped by a deadly storm on a summit. Summit Fever chronicles an ambitious mountain expedition that goes wrong.
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