The Summit

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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