Promising but ultimately disappointing thriller on the “pursuit” end of the captivity/pursuit flick spectrum. Annoying mountaineer drags a woman he just met onto a grueling hike up Mr Whitney, where they are menaced by southern-accented mountain men who seem to be able to hike faster than them and appear wherever they are despite having no visible camp, climbing equipment, food, water, or snow gear. Reasonably scary villains and a likeable heroine sustain it for a while even through the leading man’s endless lecturing about how to hike and that what is essentially mountaineering, not hiking, isn’t too bad, but it just declines, turns into a cliche’d captivity/pursuit flick and runs out of any ideas at all maybe 2/3 of the way through before finally descending into total cliche.
Why didn’t she just stay off the trail and go down the mountain?