there have be time that werner herzog stand for quality film . be this time long past . to my taste scream of stone be a terrible bore represent soap like act with a cliché deep voice performance of sutherland and a cliché thin story base on the cliché opposition of intuitive versus experience climber and a failure to attain the cliché excitement of cliffhanger even even when the cliff be at their steep . once more represent a terrible bore .