“Because it’s there,” is the iconic, oft-quoted, and possibly apocryphal answer given by George Mallory when asked why on Earth he’d want to try to get to the top of the 29,029-foot-tall Mount Everest.

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. North Face Disappointed with the snow non-event this morning? Thinking that this winter has been great and all, but couldn’t we have more snow, more cold, more extreme and life-threatening weather? North Face might just satisfy your apparent lust for frostbite. The film chronicles the attempt of a pair of German climbers who, before the 1936…