K2 is the dramatic setting for this documentary about 2008’s fatal disaster, in which 11 mountaineers died on the world's...
K2 is the dramatic setting for this documentary about 2008’s fatal disaster, in which 11 mountaineers died on the world's second-highest mountain. Director Nick Ryan pieces together what happened on this doomed expedition that captured world headlines - helped by reports that some climbers had left others to die on K2’s slopes. Combining found footage, survivor interviews and re-enactments, The Summit attempts to set the record straight about this tragedy.
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The Summit | Details
- Award winner
- Winner of Editing Award and World Cinema Documentary Film Editing Award, Sundance Film Festival 2013.
- Runtime
- 104
- Genre
- Documentary
- Country of origin
- Ireland, UK