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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring James Hurdle

James Hurdle appears in The Climb, the film adaptation of the book by Hermann Buhl Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage: The Lonely Challenge, first published in 1956.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
The Climb. Poster of the 1986 movie and cover of the 1956 book, Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage: The Lonely Challenge
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Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage: The Lonely Challenge
Hermann Buhl, 1956
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The Climb
Donald Shebib, 1986

Story of mountaineer Hermann Buhl and his attempt on the summit of Nanga Parbat in 1953. The characters and incidents are based on the descriptions as described in the soruce material ‘Nanga Parbat pilgrimage’ written by Hermann Buhl. A production that was part of a series of three teleplays called Mountain Men, which concerned climbers who were the first to scale three iconic mountains.