Should you watch The Summit?
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The Summit
Documentary · 2013
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.
The sides of The Summit
- The 2008 K2 disaster
- Real expedition footage mixed with reconstructions
- Climbers caught in the death zone
The Summit is good for you if…
- you want to understand what it takes to stay alive near the top of K2.
- you like a real climb where every hour high on the mountain counts.
- you want a sober account of what really happened to the climbers.
The Summit is bad for you if…
- you can't watch a story where real climbers die on a mountain.
- you need one clear answer, and the survivors' stories don't agree.
About: ambition · survival · grief
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