Poster released for mountaineering adventure film "The Climbers"

BEIJING, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- A new poster for the upcoming Chinese mountaineering adventure film, "The Climbers," has been released to pay tribute to Chinese soldiers on Army Day, Aug. 1, according to the official Weibo account of the film.

The poster features a uniformed Chinese mountaineering team leader with tears in his eyes. Behind him, in a snowstorm is Mount Qomolangma, atop which a five-starred red flag, the national flag of China, is waving.

The movie dramatizes the real-life expedition of Chinese mountaineers to ascend Mount Qomolangma in 1960 and 1975.

The film, directed by Daniel Lee and starring Wu Jing, Zhang Ziyi, Zhang Yi, Jing Boran and Hu Ge, is set for release in China on Sept. 30, 2019.