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The Summit
2013 · Film · documentary · 95 min
Directed by Nick Ryan
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.
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The film The Summit (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2363471/) does a great job showing the dangers of 8,000m of elevation. Fascinating to think about what drives people to climb these mountains with survival rates of 10% or lower.
I don't think these two events are similar. Most of the fatalities on K2 in 2008 where due to poor planning or preparation of the climbers themselves. While recent tragedy on Everest was simply an ice-fall and avalanche.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zkC9IMQmYA is a very good video of Chris Warner talking to Google employees about leadership. He has climbed K2 in 2007 and gives his opinion on the events in 2008.
Also The Summit [0] is a nice film about this tragedy.
[0]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2363471/