re: The Alpinist climbing doc (Netflix)

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Really sucks the way he went out by avalanche

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This seems to be a common way for alpine adventurers to go out. Avalanches are predictable under certain conditions, but then they happen even when conditions look good.

I just saw a documentary in the theater called Torn, about famous climber Alex Lowe, who died in 1999 in a random avalanche while approaching a climb. Another guy died as well, but Conrad Anker survived the avalanche. Lowe had a wife and three kids (the oldest was 10 at the time). Torn is not a climbing documentary. The backdrop of the documentary is that Lowe and the other guy's bodies were found recently, so his family went to Tibet to recover the bodies. But the story is really about how Conrad Anker became part of the family in the wake of Lowe's death. It's not exactly a soap opera, but there are some awkward moments because Lowe's oldest son is the director of the documentary and he's trying to understand the whole story (remember he was only 10 when it happened).

I just learned that Torn will be on Disney Plus on February 4.

Torn trailer