“It’s total bull,” he said of Everest to LA Times. “Anyone who goes to that movie and wants a fact-based account should read ‘Into Thin Air’”
His book was a best-seller and the film rights were bought by Sony Pictures in 1997, who turned it into a TV movie.
“People told me, ‘Movies never get made.Take the money. What do you have to lose? I curse myself for selling it at all. What I learned from the TV movie was that dramatic films take dramatic license, and when you sign a document, you can do whatever you want with me. It wasn’t worth the money I got.”