The Summit

A harrowing, high-altitude account of disaster that keeps you gripped and unsettled, mixing raw footage with reenactments to convey the terror of survival.

Directed by

Nick Ryan

Genres

Adventure, Documentary, Drama

Starring

Christine Barnes, Christo Mitzkov, Hoselito Bite

Overview

The Summit is a 2012 documentary film about the 2008 K2 disaster directed by Nick Ryan. It combines documentary footage with dramatized recreations of the events of the 2008 K2 disaster. On the way to and from the summit, eleven climbers died during a short time span creating one of the worst catastophes in climbing history. Much of the documentary footage was captured by Swedish mountaineer Fredrik Sträng. Sträng was planning to do a Documentary which was aborted due to the fact that he did not reach the summit. The footage was still valuable to help solving what really did happen since all the climbers had different stories about what happened.

How it feels

Tense, bleak, melancholic and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Survival, death, isolation, nature

Content

Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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