[1] The film explores high peaks around the world while telling the relationship between humans and mountains across time.

Adventure sports people:[2] After her critically acclaimed film, Sherpa,[3] producer Peedom resumes her work with American mountaineer and photographer Renan Ozturk.

American actor Willem Dafoe narrates the film and reads passages from Robert Macfarlane's book "Mountains of the Mind".

The website's critical consensus reads, "Mountain offers a visually thrilling – and surprisingly affecting – look at man's relationship with some of Earth's most imposing natural wonders.

[8] Harry Windsor from The Hollywood Reporter called it "one of the most visceral essay films ever made" thanks to the musical score and the non-traditional narrative approach, however, he criticised the length of the movie, defining it "slightly overextended".