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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.
Edmund Viesturs (born June 22, 1959) is an American high-altitude mountaineer, corporate speaker, and well known author in the mountain climbing community.He was the first American to climb all 14 of the eight-thousander mountains, and the 5th person to do so without supplemental oxygen. [1]
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]
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 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 .
Gerard McDonnell (20 January 1971 – 2 August 2008), mountaineer and engineer, was the first Irishman to reach the summit of K2, [1] the second-highest mountain on Earth, in August 2008. He died along with 10 other mountaineers following an avalanche on the descent, [ 2 ] in the deadliest accident in the history of K2 mountaineering .
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.
They were simply climbing a winter mountain to reach their destination, a hot spring. If mountaineering is defined as aiming for a mountain destination with the itinerary and route planned, then the Hakkōda Disaster is the deadliest mountain disaster in the world, with 199 fatalities in a single climb.