Recently, such an animation was launched on Netflix, this animation is produced by the Original Japanese Manga Artist by a French animation director, the original author is the original author of the "Lonely Foodie" manga Jiro Taniguchi, and the French director who produced this animation is Patrick Imbert, the director of "The Story of the Big Bad Fox", this animation is "The Summit of the Gods" that tells the story of the mountain climber.
In 1924, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine tried to climb Mount Everest and never appeared again. Seventy years later, a young Japanese journalist, Sasuke Fukamachi, meets a mysterious climber named Shoji Habu, who believes he saw Mallory's camera in Habu's hand, which may reveal whether Mallory and his companions were really the first to climb Mount Everest.
Fukamachi gradually learned more about Habu Shoji, so much so that he eventually climbed Mount Everest with him and documented the whole process.
This is the story of the novel "神々の山嶺" published in 1997 by the Japanese novelist 夢獏獏 (author of "Yin and Yang Division"), who conceived this book for 15 years and traveled to the Himalayas and surrounding areas several times, personally experiencing and feeling, before becoming this book.
In 2008, manga artist Jiro Taniguchi adapted the novel into a manga that was well received once it was released, and was also adapted into a movie in 2016, starring Junichi Okada and Hiroshi Abe.
The animated film, produced by French animation director Patrick Inbert, was first screened at the Cannes Film Festival in July 2021.
100 Christopher L. Inoa - Observer
As one of the truly great animated films of the year, Inbert is on a par with France's new generation of animation geniuses Jérémy Clapin ("I Lost My Body") and Rémi Chayé ("Pioneer Girl"), maintaining a high standard in both story and style.
91 Andrew Crump - The Playlist
A few years later, all That Inbert has done could make The Mountain of the Gods, a fictional work, one of the greatest Everest films of all time, the most respectful of Everest.
86 Jacob Oller - Paste Magazine
The complex storyline and convincingly beautiful scenery of The Mountains of the Gods make the film's philosophical thinking very good: whether you risk everything to get to the top, or explore the truth of a puzzle, or make a grueling animation, you're lucky enough to have something you love.
80 Tracy Brown - Los Angeles Times
The beautiful mountains depicted in the film are particularly striking, and the climbing scenes are the most prominent. The scenes do not convey the majestic scale of the peaks and the techniques required to climb them (and the physical losses involved).
75 Glenn Kenny - The New York Times
The most imaginative aspect of this animated film is the climbing scene, creating an effect that is both exciting and painful.
63 Mark Hanson - Slant Magazine
While the film reveals the topographical mysteries of Mount Everest from time to time, it doesn't go into enough detail for climbers.