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| Rod Baber, Betsy Huelskamp, Monica Piris, Phurba Tashi Sherpa, Darius Vaiciulis | | Director:
| Barny Revill | | Format:
| NTSC | | Number of Discs:
| 4 | | Studio:
| Discovery Channel | | Run Time:
| 344 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| December 05, 2008 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 6 reviews |
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4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 High altitude drama....and repetitionJul 15, 2009
By K. Johnson
Having done some climbing, (many years ago) the subject matter and cinematography are highly compelling, and season 1 was very good. Season 2 however, is a study on how you can take an already very dramatic subject, and stretch it "beyond the limit" to the point of ridiculous.
I am not by any means berating the expedition members, (well, except for Betsy, who was a joke) but the film makers quest for high ratings seems to be the guiding force here. I can almost hear them asking the following questions -
1. Just how many times can we show spinning images of all the metal in Tim's body?
2. Seems like there isn't enough drama this year, how about a fight between Tim and Russ?
3. How many times can we talk about HAPE and HACE? I mean, after all, people need to hear it at least 30 times, don't they?
4. Why would we show all of the compelling, but silly aspects of climbing, when we can repeat the same footage, over and over and over and over and over.... (I do realize that TV shows need a certain amount of repetition, but 8 times within the same episode?)
5. Can we get a ridiculously unqualified female climber? And, can we make her look even more stupid? Just for laughs?
In an attempt to make things more dramatic, as is usual with reality TV, some of the realism seems lacking. I'm normally a huge Discovery fan, but if there is a season 3....I'll pass....I've basically already seen it.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
very enjoyableApr 21, 2010
By Aquinas
"summa"
Very enyoyable, 21 April 2010
By Aquinas "summa" (celestial heights, UK) - See all my reviews
I watched these series with a gap of about 2 years between series 1 and 2. My impression was that series 1 was more interesting as there was a greater variety of charathers whereas series 2 was overshadowed by the amusing Tim, whose ego was as big as his frame. The scenery is really lovely but there are annoying features, namely the obsessive Machismo, the personifcation by the charachters of the mountain and the frequent recapitulations which must have preceded and followed commercial breaks. Even so, it is all very enjoyable and one really wants to know who will summit. Clearly these guys have extrordinary self-discipline in this context but I wondered to myself whether this self-discipline was reflected in other parts of their lives. As the Dane rightly put it, his bigger challenge was his forthcoming marriage and in that he was spot on. Climbimg everest is about a dialogue with oneslef - there is something more majestic about making a sucess out of a marriage where the dialogue is with another person rather than with myself battling a mountain!
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Reviewed in The TimesSep 08, 2008
By E. Wardle
If the late great Sam Peckinpah had ever found himself on the Nepalese border, jacked up on Pepsi Max and hair metal, he might have made a documentary like Everest: Beyond the Limit... Like the best Peckinpah westerns it was also strangely beguiling and somehow shot through with an elegiac tone that balanced every moment of macho posturing with ominous intimations of mortality... The Wild Bunch go climbing and all the better for it!'
Kevin Maher, The Times
"Beyond the Limit" is a stunning tour de force, easily the best documentary on Everest, perhaps the finest footage on climbing ever produced... ...run out and get a big-screen HD television, but the real magic of "Beyond the Limit" is in the human stories.
David Whiting, US Mountaineer and Orange County Register columnist
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 If like season 1 you'll like season 2Aug 16, 2008
By Gadget Fan in CA
Like season one the quality of the video is great and it does a great job of showing what was going on and what it might be like on the expedition.
However, I gave the set a 3 star score because of the DVD's themselves. I have read other Discovery Channel DVD reviews that said the DVD's had only primitive navigation, little real effort at polish and zero extras. This DVD set is like that. Instead of a nice splash screen with navigation it just has text that says to play the programs. It's about on the level of what a consumer set top DVD-R recorder does. One example of that is a review on the Survivorman season 2 set that is available now (August 2008). Now note that another release of season 2 of Survivorman will be released in October that is half the price and has actual Survivorman cover art. Not sure what is going on. I looked at the Discovery Channel site and they sell DVD's with single episodes with generic covers. Some of those DVD's are available on Amazon for $22/episode.
Just a guess but it looks like Discovery releases programs one episode at a time, then all of those in one set and eventually releases a nice boxed set version that is fully produced later. Some people think the DVDs released earlier look like DVD-R's and I have to agree they have that look but I'm not certain. If they stick to that pattern another Everest Beyond the Limit season 2 boxed set that has navigation and extras might be released in the future. I think the simpler DVD sets may be rushed to market for people that want to buy episodes shortly after they are aired.
Look for yourself here:
"Everest Beyond the Limit: The Complete Season 1" no menus Everest: Beyond the Limit The Complete 1st Season (3 Disc)
"Everest Beyond the Limit" with navigation and extras Everest: Beyond the Limit
"Survivorman Season 2" with generic cover art and simple navigation Survivorman Season 2 (4 DVD Set)
"Survivorman Collection 2" with nice cover art Survivorman: Collection 2
"Everest Beyond the Limit season 2 episode 8" a single episode from season 2 Everest: Beyond the Limit Season 2 - Episode 8: Now or Never
However, the actual program material in this set is good. No complaints there. I just wanted people to know this set would not be as nice as the season 1 boxed set they might have. I was wondering why they used the exact same cover art on the box for this season 2 set...
greatOct 06, 2008
By Daniel P. Hobrecht
"dhobrecht"
this is a great series and fun to watch, very well done and I hope there is a season # 3
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