Death-defying mountain top screening for 'Mission: Impossible – Fallout'

For those who have witnessed Tom Cruise’s nerve-shredding, cliff-hanging moment in Mission: Impossible – Fallout, the location of a special screening of the movie yesterday will make your stomach flip.

Around 2000 people hiked for four hours into the fjords of western Norway to Preikestolen, or ‘Pulpit Rock’, as seen in the movie’s final showdown between Ethan Hunt and Henry Cavill’s August Walker (thought the action is transposed to Kashmir).

By 11pm, and once the audience were comfortably 2000 feet up, and at the edge of a cliff, out came the popcorn.

The group then trekked down again once the movie wrapped up at 1.30am, assisted by 200 spotlights illuminating the journey home.

Cruise, who has a penchant for putting himself in peril, was clearly disappointed to have missed the screening, taking to Twitter to pay tribute to the intrepid folk who took part.

Though he did his bit on the movie, of course, performing his own stunts, and famously breaking his ankle during a leap between rooftops in London, a leap which delayed the movie by months while he recovered.

The movie already looks like it could become the highest-grossing of the franchise, with a record-breaking opening weekend.

Thus far its made just shy of $200 million worldwide on its first week of release.

It’s out now across the UK.

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