The SummitSVT2, Mon 22:15 or SVT1, Wed 23:30Nick Ryan’s acclaimed 2012 documentary The Summit combines footage, interviews and recreations to retell the 2008 K2 disaster that claimed the lives of 11 mountaineers on the second-highest mountain on Earth.
“The Summit does an amazing job of putting you on the mountain, making it one of the most terrifying horror films a climber could ever see,” said the Portland Oregonian.
The ‘Jason Voorhees’ of this piece is the Bottleneck, a steep couloir overhung by seracs where the risk of falling ice and avalanches make climbers aim to minimise their time there.
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Source: The Copenhagen Post
