

Craggy peaks near the capital city of Ljubljana stand in for the less-craggy White Mountains and were used in many outdoor scenes.

The movie was filmed in Slovenia on the southeastern edge of the Alps, a country with a long history of mountain climbing and movie-making about mountain climbing, where filming is less expensive than in the United States. “I told my friends who pointed that out: Just roll with it!” said Pam Bales, a backcountry specialist whose rescue of a would-be suicide victim from the mountain amid vicious weather in 2010 has been turned into Infinite Storm, with Naomi Watts playing Bales. New Hampshire’s own Mount Washington will be the star of a major motion picture opening later this month, but be warned: It’s not any Mount Washington we’re familiar with.
