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Release Date:
October 4, 2013
Original Title:
The Summit
Alternate Titles:
Döden på K2
Vârful
Genres:
Adventure | Documentary
Production Companies:
Image Now
Production Countries:
Ireland
Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 6 US: R
Runtime: 95
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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Director:
Nick Ryan
Director of Photography:
Robbie Ryan
Editor:
Ben Stark
Executive Producer:
John Battsek
Pat Falvey
Darrell Kavanagh
Alan Maher
John McDonnell
Original Music Composer:
Nick Seymour
Producer:
Nick Ryan
Writer:
Mark Monroe
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