"[I]ts most compelling segments deal with the pain, not the triumph. In its ability to let us hear firsthand what life-and-death combat does to the human body and spirit, this film has few peers."
Los Angeles Times

"The scenery is breathtaking and the tone resolutely jaunty, but HIGH GROUND which treks alongside 11 wounded United States veterans (and one bereft mother) to the top of a Himalayan mountain, leaves an inescapably poignant trace."
New York Times

"Brown does a fine job demonstrating that these outwardly apparent injuries are hardly less challenging than invisible ones..."
Hollywood Reporter