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The 1986 K2 disaster refers to a period from 6 August to 10 August 1986, when five mountaineers died on the eight-thousander K2, in the Karakoram during a severe storm. Eight other climbers were killed in the weeks preceding, bringing the total number of deaths that climbing season to 13.
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.
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 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.
On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacks Pearl Harbor in the United States which is neutral in World War II, thus bringing the U.S. into the conflict; the attack is presented as a Japanese disaster, "A Day of Infamy", bombing a neutral country, missing key targets, and provoking a war they could never win. 2,403 victims are killed and 1,178 ...
Documentary films about the September 11 attacks (45 P) Pages in category "Documentary films about disasters" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total.
CBS has a new reality show joining the likes of Survivor and Big Brother this fall.And it's as epic as the mountains of the New Zealand Alps. The Summit takes 16 Americans into the mountains with ...
Mountain is a British television series written and presented by Griff Rhys Jones that was originally broadcast 29 July – 26 August 2007 on BBC One. [ 1 ] The five programmes follow Rhys Jones as he traverses the mountains of Great Britain , from Wales to the Northern Highlands of Scotland.