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K2 - Triumph And Tragedy On The Savage Mountain
1988 · 51 min
A sober, firsthand account of ambition meeting catastrophe on a remote peak, gripping and quietly devastating.
- Directed by
- Allen Jewhurst, Barry Reynolds
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Jim Curran, Kurt Diemberger, Julie Tullis
- Overview
- Chris Bonington and Jim Curran trace the history of K2 expeditions from 1903 to the disastrous loss of life in the summer of 1986, when 13 climbers died on K2, climbing tragedies that aggressively carved the epithet the 'savage mountain' into the public consciousness. Jim Curran was hired by the British 'Fuller’s K2' team to document their attempt on the unclimbed NW Ridge, so he was at the mountain, all summer. Inevitably, his documentary ended up drifting into a gripping narrative from the front line of the disastrous and tragic summer that killed 13 climbers on K2.
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- Directed by
- Allen Jewhurst, Barry Reynolds
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Jim Curran, Kurt Diemberger, Julie Tullis
