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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.
After a deadly and unsuccessful German attempt [1] in 1935, ten climbers from Austria and Germany travelled to the still-unclimbed north face of the Eiger in 1936, but, before serious summit attempts could get underway, one climber was killed during a training climb.
CBS has found its Everest, ordering to series the mountain climbing competition series The Summit. Hosted by Spartacus and Arrow vet Manu Bennett, the show follows 16 strangers as they embark on ...
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 Alpinist is a 2021 American documentary film directed by Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen about Marc-André Leclerc, a free-spirited and little-known 23-year-old Canadian rock climber, ice climber, and alpinist.
The Edward Whymper disaster, during which four alpinists died, on the first ascent of the Matterhorn seventy-one years before, had formerly been the most publicised Alpine disaster. [4] The 1936 event was covered by Joe Simpson 's 2007 book (and Emmy -winning TV documentary), The Beckoning Silence , as well as in the 2008 German dramatic movie ...
British actor Julian Sands, whose remains were found last month after he disappeared during a climbing trip in a California mountain range in January, spoke of how “dangerous” the activity ...