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* ShootTheDog: Vaughn, not wanting to share the dex with Tom (who’s been injured in the avalanche), [[spoiler:injects him with air, killing him with a pulmonary embolism.]]

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* ShooOutTheClowns: [[The jovial Bench brothers are first divided up, then killed, with one via avalanche and the other via nitroglycerin.]]
* ShootTheDog: Vaughn, not wanting to share the dex with Tom (who’s (who's been injured in the avalanche), [[spoiler:injects him with air, killing him with a pulmonary embolism.]]



* TokenReligiousTeammate: Karim who is a Muslim.

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* TokenReligiousTeammate: Karim who is a Muslim.Muslim, and his prayer ritual on the rescue mission gets into Malcolm's nerves.


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* XMarksTheSpot: Annie and Vaughn manages to mark their location to the rescuers using a flare and a bag of [[spoiler:Tom's blood]].
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The cast includes Creator/ChrisODonnell, Creator/BillPaxton, Creator/RobinTunney, and Creator/ScottGlenn. It won several awards for drama and visual effects.

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The cast includes Creator/ChrisODonnell, Creator/BillPaxton, Creator/RobinTunney, Creator/IzabellaScorupco and Creator/ScottGlenn. It won several awards for drama and visual effects.
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The cast includesCreator/ChrisODonnell, Creator/BillPaxton, Creator/RobinTunney, and Creator/ScottGlenn. It won several awards for drama and visual effects.

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The cast includesCreator/ChrisODonnell, includes Creator/ChrisODonnell, Creator/BillPaxton, Creator/RobinTunney, and Creator/ScottGlenn. It won several awards for drama and visual effects.

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A 2000 survival adventure drama film directed by Creator/MartinCampbell, about a group of climbers who become stranded in an avalanche on K2, and the rescue mission launched to find them. With a cast including Creator/ChrisODonnell, Creator/BillPaxton, Creator/RobinTunney, and Creator/ScottGlenn, and loads and loads of SceneryPorn, it won several awards for drama and visual effects.

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A ''Vertical Limit'' is a 2000 survival adventure survival/adventure drama film directed by Creator/MartinCampbell, about a group of climbers who become stranded in an avalanche on K2, the K2 mountain in the Karakoram (the northwestern extension of the Himalaya between UsefulNotes/{{China}} and UsefulNotes/{{Pakistan}}), and the rescue mission launched to find them. With a them.

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cast including Creator/ChrisODonnell, includesCreator/ChrisODonnell, Creator/BillPaxton, Creator/RobinTunney, and Creator/ScottGlenn, and loads and loads of SceneryPorn, it Creator/ScottGlenn. It won several awards for drama and visual effects.



* ImColdSoCold: [[spoiler:Tom]]. Unsurprising, since he’s, you know, freezing to death.

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* ImColdSoCold: [[spoiler:Tom]]. Unsurprising, since he’s, he's, you know, freezing to death.
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->''"Up there, you're not dying, Mr. Garrett,...you're dead."''
-->--'''Montgomery Wick.'''

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->''"Up there, you're not dying, Mr. Garrett,...Garrett... you're dead."''
-->--'''Montgomery Wick.'''
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-->'''Peter:''' My sister's dying up there, Mr. Wick.\\
'''Wick:''' Up there you're not dying. You're '''''dead'''''.



* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler: Vaughn, who is not above sacrificing the rest of his climbing party to ensure his own survival.]]



* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler:Vaughn injects Tom with air in order to kill him, trying to exploit the fact that he's alrady fatally injured to try to pass it off as him dying in his sleep. It's instantly subverted the following morning -- the time it takes for Annie to discover Tom's corpse, figure out what Vaughn did, and then attack him in a vengeful rage is probably ten seconds at the most.]]

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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler:Vaughn injects Tom with air in order to kill him, trying to exploit the fact that he's alrady already fatally injured to try to pass it off as him dying in his sleep. It's instantly subverted the following morning -- the time it takes for Annie to discover Tom's corpse, figure out what Vaughn did, and then attack him in a vengeful rage is probably ten seconds at the most.]]


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* MilesGloriosus: Elliot Vaughn has a reputation as an adventurer/adrenaline junkie. [[spoiler: Turns out to be a big lie: His first expedition to K2 ended badly due to his incompetence, and he only survived because he stole dexamethasone from a teammate.]]


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-->'''Wick:''' [[PetTheDog You did the right thing to cut the rope]]. Any good climber would have. If Royce had the knife, [[HeroicSacrifice he'd have done it himself]].
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: [[spoiler:And only 3 out of 11 total people that climb the mountain make it to the end.]]
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* TheShill: While it did gather decent reviews and even won some awards for it's visual effects, it's mostly remembered nowadays as among the films recommended by "David Manning", a fake reviewer created by Sony to praise movies that underperformed.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Peter succeeds in rescuing Annie, Wick finally finds his wife's body and even gets his vengeance on Vaughn who left her to die on a previous climb. But out of 6 rescuers and 3 trapped climbers, only 1/3, 2 rescuers and 1 trapped climber (of which Wick and Vaughn are not included) make it back really putting the validity of the entire rescue mission into question]].

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Peter succeeds in rescuing Annie, Annie. Wick finally finds his wife's body body, and even gets his vengeance on Vaughn who left her to die on a previous climb. But out of 6 rescuers and 3 trapped climbers, only 1/3, 1/3 of those characters, 2 rescuers (of which Wick isn't included) and 1 trapped climber (of which Wick and Vaughn are not included) make it back really putting the validity of the entire rescue mission into question]].back]].
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler:Vaughn injects Tom with air in order to kill him, trying to exploit the fact that he's alrady fatally injured to try to pass it off as him dying in his sleep. It's instantly subverted the following morning -- the time it takes for Annie to discover Tom's corpse, figure out what Vaughn did, and then attack him in a vengeful rage is probably ten seconds at the most.]]



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%%* TokenRomance* TokenRomance: Monique and Peter.
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* {{Determinator}}: Dying every minute above 24,000 feet won't stop Peter from wanting to save his sister.
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* ScalingTheSummit: The first expedition of people attempted to fully reach the K2 summit at the ill-advised behest of a rich guy for ''a publicity stunt'' while the second group climbed the mountain on a time crunch to find and hopefully rescue the first group after an avalanche traps them in a crevasse.

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* ScalingTheSummit: The first expedition of people attempted to fully reach the K2 summit (just as a storm was developing) at the ill-advised behest of a rich guy for ''a publicity stunt'' while the second group climbed the mountain on a time crunch to find and hopefully rescue the first group after an avalanche traps them in a crevasse.
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* ScalingTheSummit: The first expedition of people attempted to fully reach the K2 summit at the ill-advised behest of a rich guy for ''a publicity stunt'' while the second group climbed the mountain on a time crunch to find and hopefully rescue them after an avalanche traps them in a crevasse.

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* ScalingTheSummit: The first expedition of people attempted to fully reach the K2 summit at the ill-advised behest of a rich guy for ''a publicity stunt'' while the second group climbed the mountain on a time crunch to find and hopefully rescue them the first group after an avalanche traps them in a crevasse.

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* TitleDrop: Done by Montgomery Wick when talking to Peter about how much of a DeathWorld being several thousand feet in the air on K2 is and how Peter is pretty much ready to drop dead by this point-which he ''will'', if he doesn't accepts Wick's help, even with the ulterior motives Wick has for going for the survivors.


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* TitleDrop: Done by Montgomery Wick when talking to Peter about how much of a DeathWorld being several thousand feet in the air on K2 is and how Peter is pretty much ready to drop dead by this point-which he ''will'', if he doesn't accepts Wick's help, even with the ulterior motives Wick has for going for the survivors.
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* ScalingTheSummit: The first group of people attempted to fully reach the K2 summit at the ill-advised behest of a rich guy for ''a publicity stunt'' while the second group climbed the mountain on a time crunch to find and hopefully rescue them after an avalanche traps them in a crevasse.

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* ScalingTheSummit: The first group expedition of people attempted to fully reach the K2 summit at the ill-advised behest of a rich guy for ''a publicity stunt'' while the second group climbed the mountain on a time crunch to find and hopefully rescue them after an avalanche traps them in a crevasse.
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* ScalingTheSummit: It's about an expedition to K2 that meets with disaster after an avalanche, and a subsequent expedition sent to rescue them. The first group of people attempted to fully reach the K2 summit at the ill-advised behest of a rich guy for ''a publicity stunt'' while the second group climbed the mountain on a time crunch to find and hopefully rescue them after an avalanche traps them in a crevasse.

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* ScalingTheSummit: It's about an expedition to K2 that meets with disaster after an avalanche, and a subsequent expedition sent to rescue them. The first group of people attempted to fully reach the K2 summit at the ill-advised behest of a rich guy for ''a publicity stunt'' while the second group climbed the mountain on a time crunch to find and hopefully rescue them after an avalanche traps them in a crevasse.
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* ScalingTheSummit: It's about an expedition to K2 that meets with disaster after an avalanche, and a subsequent expedition sent to rescue them.

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* ScalingTheSummit: It's about an expedition to K2 that meets with disaster after an avalanche, and a subsequent expedition sent to rescue them. The first group of people attempted to fully reach the K2 summit at the ill-advised behest of a rich guy for ''a publicity stunt'' while the second group climbed the mountain on a time crunch to find and hopefully rescue them after an avalanche traps them in a crevasse.
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* TitleDrop: Done by Montgomery Wick on a speech about near the end. He is talking to Tom about how much of a DeathWorld being several thousand feet in the air in the mountain is and how Tom is pretty much ready to drop dead by this point-which he ''will'', if he doesn't accepts Wick's help, even with the ulterior motives Wick has for going for the survivors.

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* TitleDrop: Done by Montgomery Wick on a speech about near the end. He is when talking to Tom Peter about how much of a DeathWorld being several thousand feet in the air in the mountain on K2 is and how Tom Peter is pretty much ready to drop dead by this point-which he ''will'', if he doesn't accepts Wick's help, even with the ulterior motives Wick has for going for the survivors.

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* AsHimself: Renowned climber Ed Viesturs cameos as a trainer.

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* AsHimself: Renowned climber Ed Viesturs cameos as a trainer.cameos.



* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Peter succeeds in rescuing Annie, Wick finally finds his wife's body and even gets his vengeance on Vaughn who left her to die on a previous climb. But out of 6 rescuers and 3 trapped climbers, only 1/3, 2 rescuers and 1 trapped climber make it back questioning the validity of the entire mission.

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Peter succeeds in rescuing Annie, Wick finally finds his wife's body and even gets his vengeance on Vaughn who left her to die on a previous climb. But out of 6 rescuers and 3 trapped climbers, only 1/3, 2 rescuers and 1 trapped climber (of which Wick and Vaughn are not included) make it back questioning really putting the validity of the entire mission.rescue mission into question]].



* DeathWorld: Wick makes a few speeches throughout the film (one of which had the TitleDrop) about how the mountain is incredibly lethal and the human body is not designed to survive in such extreme conditions for long. The flat-out ''[[CharactersDroppingLikeFlies massacre]]'' of characters that occurs throughout the film gives weight to his opinion.

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* DeathWorld: Wick makes a few speeches throughout the film (one (two of which had the TitleDrop) TitleDrop and the page quote) about how the mountain is incredibly lethal and the human body is not designed to survive in such extreme conditions for long. The flat-out ''[[CharactersDroppingLikeFlies massacre]]'' of characters that occurs throughout the film gives weight to his opinion.



* EnemyMine: After discovering [[spoiler:Vaughn had murdered [=McLaren=] and attacking him because of it]], Annie briefly forms one with Vaughn in a last-ditch effort to escape the crevasse they're trapped in.



* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: [[spoiler:And only 3 out of 11 total people those that climb the mountain make it to the end.]]

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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: [[spoiler:And only 3 out of 11 total people those that climb the mountain make it to the end.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Peter succeeds in rescuing Annie, Wick finally finds his wife's body and even gets his vengeance on Vaughn who left her to die on a previous climb. But out of 6 rescuers and 3 trapped climbers, only 1/3, 2 rescuers and 1 trapped climber make it back questioning the validity of the entire mission.



* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: [[spoiler:And only 1/3 of those that climb the mountain make it to the end.]]

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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: [[spoiler:And only 1/3 3 out of 11 total people those that climb the mountain make it to the end.]]
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* DwindlingParty: Out of 6 rescuers and 3 trapped people, [[spoiler:two rescuers and one trapped person survive the movie-four rescuers and lost to ultimately save just one person]].

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* DwindlingParty: Out of 6 rescuers and 3 trapped people, [[spoiler:two [[spoiler:2 rescuers and one 1 trapped person survive the movie-four mission. Four rescuers and lost to ultimately save just one person]].



* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: [[spoiler:And only three of those that climb the mountain make it to the end.]]

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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: [[spoiler:And only three 1/3 of those that climb the mountain make it to the end.]]
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* DefrostingIceQueen: Allegedly somewhat zig-zagged by Monique as Skip claimed in CanadaEh above. With Peter, however, she seemed mildly surly from the moment they met, but has gradually come to respect him to where she even kisses at the end.

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* DefrostingIceQueen: Allegedly somewhat zig-zagged by Monique as Skip claimed in CanadaEh above. With Peter, however, she seemed mildly surly from the moment they met, but has gradually come to respect him to where she even kisses him at the end.
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* DefrostingIceQueen: Allegedly somewhat zig-zagged by Monique as Skip claimed in CanadaEh above. With Peter, however, she seemed mildly surly from the moment they met, but has gradually come to respect him to where she even kisses at the end.

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* BigBad: Elliot Vaughn with K2 itself, arguably, being the BiggerBad.

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* BigBad: Elliot Vaughn with K2 itself, arguably, being the BiggerBad.GreaterScopeVillain.



* DeathWorld: Wick makes a few speeches throughout the film (one of which had the TitleDrop) about how the mountain is incredibly lethal and the human body is not designed to survive in such extreme conditions for long. The flat-out ''[[CharactersDroppingLikeFlies massacre]]'' of characters that occurs throughout the film gives weight to his opinion.



* GeniusLoci: Wick talks about the K2 as such at one point, saying that it "wanted" Vaughn to return because it hadn't "claimed" him the first time around.

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* GeniusLoci: Wick talks about the K2 as such at one point, saying that it "wanted" Vaughn to return because it hadn't "claimed" him the first time around. His description of how the mountain is a DeathWorld also carries some connotations that he thinks it's an EldritchLocation.
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* BigBad: Elliot Vaughn and, arguably, K2 itself.

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* BigBad: Elliot Vaughn and, with K2 itself, arguably, K2 itself.being the BiggerBad.
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* {{Fingore}}: The top third of Monique's left ring finger is bent upward at a 45º angle before Garrett snaps it back into place.

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* {{Fingore}}: The At one point, the top third of Monique's left ring finger is bent upward at a 45º angle before Garrett Peter snaps it back into place.
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* {{Fingore}}: The top third of Monique's left ring finger is bent upward at a 45º angle before Garrett snaps it back into place.

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->''"Up there, you're not dying, Mr. Garret,...'''you're dead.'''"''

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->''"Up there, you're not dying, Mr. Garret,...'''you're Garrett,...you're dead.'''"''"''



A 2000 adventure drama film directed by Creator/MartinCampbell, about a group of climbers who become stranded in an avalanche on K2, and the rescue mission launched to find them. With a cast including Creator/ChrisODonnell, Creator/BillPaxton, Creator/RobinTunney, and Creator/ScottGlenn, and loads and loads of SceneryPorn, it won several awards for drama and visual effects.

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A 2000 survival adventure drama film directed by Creator/MartinCampbell, about a group of climbers who become stranded in an avalanche on K2, and the rescue mission launched to find them. With a cast including Creator/ChrisODonnell, Creator/BillPaxton, Creator/RobinTunney, and Creator/ScottGlenn, and loads and loads of SceneryPorn, it won several awards for drama and visual effects.



* AsHimself: Renowned climber Ed Viesturs cameos as a trainer.



* CanadaEh: Monique is French-Canadian. Skip says that when she's in a good mood she's Canadian but when she's not, she's French.

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* CanadaEh: Monique is French-Canadian. Skip says that when she's in a good mood she's Canadian "Canadian" but when she's not, she's French."French".



* DwindlingParty: Out of 6 rescuers and 3 trapped people, two rescuers and one trapped person survive the movie-four rescuers and lost to ultimately save just one person.

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* DwindlingParty: Out of 6 rescuers and 3 trapped people, two [[spoiler:two rescuers and one trapped person survive the movie-four rescuers and lost to ultimately save just one person.person]].



* FinallyFoundTheBody: The group finds Wick’s wife’s frozen body on their way up the mountain, along with evidence that [[spoiler:Vaughn]] took all her dex doses, causing her death.

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* FinallyFoundTheBody: The group finds Wick’s wife’s frozen body on their way up the mountain, along with evidence that [[spoiler:Vaughn]] took all her dex doses, dexamethasone doses (or "dex"), causing her death.
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* DwindlingParty: Out of 6 rescuers and 3 trapped people, two rescuers and one trapped person survive the movie-four rescuers lost to ultimately save one person.

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* DwindlingParty: Out of 6 rescuers and 3 trapped people, two rescuers and one trapped person survive the movie-four rescuers and lost to ultimately save just one person.

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