The Summit (2012)
95 min
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.
- Release date
- October 12, 2012
- Country of origin
- Ireland, United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
- Budget
- $1,000,000
- Box office
- $243,550
Trailer
Cast
- Christine Barnes as Cecilie Skog
- Hoselito Bite as Climber
- Marco Confortola as Climber
- Pat Falvey as Self - Climber
- Niall Foley as Fredrik Strang
- Niall Foley as Cas van de Gevel
- Stefan Grossniklaus as Lars Nessa
- Pasang Lama as Climber
- Tshering Lama as Climber
Crew
- Walter Bonatti · Archive footage
- Gerard McDonnell · Archive footage
- Nick Ryan · Director
- Mark Monroe · Writer
- Nick Ryan · Producer
- Nick Seymour · Composer
- Robbie Ryan · Cinematographer
- Fredrik Sträng · Cinematographer
- Ben Stark · Editor