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Mountain tension… “Everest is another beast,” we are told early on in Baltasar Kormákur’s true-life tale, the first of many warning shots fired. Majestic yet unforgiving, the world’s highest mountain really does seem like a wild animal that can never be tamed. Still, tell that to those who’ve ever conquered …

THE TWO JAKES… Jake Gyllenhaal gives not one magnetic, alert yet opaque performance here. He gives two. As history prof Adam Bell, Gyllenhaal is a dry, corduroy sad-sack. As doppelganger actor Anthony St Claire, he’s all sunglasses, leather jacket and sex appeal. When Bell fixates on St Claire after seeing …