Embark on a sensory adventure to understand our enduring fascination with mountains Scored by a live orchestra at the Sydney Opera House, and narrated by Willem Dafoe, this universally acclaimed adrenaline-rush of a film is not for the faint-hearted. Flashing back to footage from the early days of western mountaineering, the film asks why humans are drawn to high places, plumbing psychological depths for an answer that goes beyond the British climber George Mallory\'s riposte about Everest: Because it\'s there.? What the press said \"Collated from more than 2,000 hours of footage shot in 15 countries, Mountain is a 70-minute rush of adrenaline; a safari into the sublime; a vertiginous voyage to the top of the world.\" Guardian