The Summit Backdrop Blur
The Summit Poster
6.8 1h 35m

The Summit

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.

Top Cast

  • Christine Barnes

    Christine Barnes

    Cecile Skog

  • Christo Mitzkov

    Christo Mitzkov

    Marco Confortola

  • Hoselito Bite

    Hoselito Bite

    Himself

  • Marco Confortola

    Marco Confortola

    Himself

  • Cecilie Skog

    Cecilie Skog

    Herself

  • Wilco Van Rooijen

    Wilco Van Rooijen

    Himself

  • Alberto Zerain

    Alberto Zerain

    Himself

  • Cas Van de Gevel

    Cas Van de Gevel

    Himself

  • Niall Foley

    Niall Foley

    Frederik Strang / Cas Van de Gevel

Overview

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.

Trailers & Clips

Related Movies

The Alpinist

Marc-André Leclerc, an exceptional climber, has made solo his religion and ice his homeland. When filmmaker Peter Mortimer begins his film, he places his camera at the base of a British Columbia cliff and waits patiently for the star climber to come down to answer his questions. Marc André, a little uncomfortable, prefers to return to the depths of the forest where he lives in a tent with his girlfriend Brette Harrington. In the heart of winter, Peter films vertiginous solos on fragile ice. He tries to make appointments with the climber who is never there and does not seem really concerned by this camera pointed at him "For me, it would not be a solo if there was someone else" . Marc-André is thus, the "pure light" of the mountaineers of his time, which marvel Barry Blanchard, Alex Honnold or Reinhold Messner, interviewed in the film. An event film for an extraordinary character.

The Alpinist

7.8 2021