What I loved of this motion picture is the attention to detail of 1930's mountaineering equipment, clothing, and practices. Now that there is interest in what happened on Everest in 1924 (Hillary & Mallory), maybe this great reel will be dusted off the shelves and shown again in theathers. There is even a reference to the British Himalayan expedition: Douglas, played by Sean Connery, says in the dialogue that he was a medical officer in that expedition.
The pivoting moment of the story? Definitely when they find the body of a man that had disappeared 50 years earlier the day before his wedding day, inside the ice of a glacier. His face did not age, and still looks twenty years old. The swiss villagers take the now 70-years old bride to see the man's corpse, and the contrast of her aged face with the much-yournger his, symbolizes the age difference in the love story between Douglas and Kate, an older man and a very young woman.
The pivoting moment of the story? Definitely when they find the body of a man that had disappeared 50 years earlier the day before his wedding day, inside the ice of a glacier. His face did not age, and still looks twenty years old. The swiss villagers take the now 70-years old bride to see the man's corpse, and the contrast of her aged face with the much-yournger his, symbolizes the age difference in the love story between Douglas and Kate, an older man and a very young woman.