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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 K2 disaster, during which – on the way to and from the summit of one of the most dangerous mountains in the world [1] – 11 climbers died during a short time span.
The Beckoning Silence is a 2007 British television film that follows and retraces the 1936 Eiger north face climbing disaster where five climbers perished while attempting to scale the north face of the Eiger mountain in Switzerland. The film features climber Joe Simpson, whose book of the same name inspired the film.
Torn is a 2021 American documentary film by photographer and explorer Max Lowe, son of the late climber Alex Lowe, who explored his father's high-profile mountain climbing death on the Himalayan peak, Mount Shishapangma, in 1999. His body was discovered in 2016, 17 years after his death. [1]
Mountain climbing disaster November 26, 2012 ( 2012-11-26 ) On May 10–11, 1996, nine climbers die on Mount Everest , including New Zealand climbing veteran Rob Hall .
The 45-minute documentary is narrated by Irish actor Liam Neeson and was filmed entirely in IMAX. It includes a description of the training required in order to climb the 29,029 feet to the summit of Mount Everest and the challenges faced during the ascent, such as avalanches, blizzards, and oxygen deprivation. [2]
Mountain climbing Based on a 1936 climb up the Eiger's north face that ended disastrously. The Wildest Dream: 2010 Documentary Mountain climbing The famed George Mallory's 1924 disappearance from Mount Everest is recounted. The Summit: 2012 Documentary Mountain climbing An account of the lives impacted by the 2008 K2 disaster. Everest: 2015 ...
The body of an American mountaineer has been discovered by a pair of fellow US climbers 22 years after he went missing following an avalanche in the Peruvian Andes.
1934 Nanga Parbat climbing disaster; 1936 Eiger climbing disaster; 1967 Mount McKinley disaster; 1970 Mount Everest disaster; 1971 Cairngorm Plateau disaster; 1974 French Mount Everest expedition; 1986 K2 disaster; 1986 Mount Hood disaster; 1995 K2 disaster; 1996 Indo-Tibetan Border Police expedition to Mount Everest; 1996 Mount Everest ...