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In March 1988, a Polish climbing team in the Karakoram struggles on their expedition to the second highest eight-thousander, K2.Two of its climbers, Maciej Berbeka and Aleksander Lwow [], decide to attempt the first winter ascent and first alpine style ascent of a neighboring eight-thousander, Broad Peak, despite the protests of their leader, Andrzej Zawada.
The documentary is about Project Possible, a plan by Nepali high altitude climber Nirmal Purja to climb all of the world's 14 highest peaks with an altitude greater than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) (called eight-thousanders) inside 7 months (i.e. from early spring to late summer, before the winter season begins).
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]
[12] James DiGiovanna of Tucson Weekly Vertical Limit, the best mountain-climbing movie starring Chris O'Donnell to come out this week." [13] Philip French of The Guardian mentioned, "Campbell sustains the tension pretty well and the settings are spectacular. More interesting than the characters, however, are two aspects of the dramatic background.
The film’s director, Lucy Walker, first learned about Sherpa in 2004, when she was in Tibet filming “Blindsight,” her acclaimed 2006 doc about blind teenagers climbing a mountain near Everest.
[13] Matt Skenazy in Outside said "'The Alpinist' Is the Most Compelling Climbing Film Since 'Free Solo'," and grimly noted, "Few sports seem to kill their practitioners more than alpinism." [ 14 ] The American Alpine Club said the film was "detailed enough to appeal to a seasoned alpinist," and that "The footage of Marc soloing big ice routes ...
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.
K2: Siren of the Himalayas is a 2012 American documentary film directed by Dave Ohlson. The film follows a group of climbers during their 2009 attempt to climb K2, chronicling the climbers' attempt to surmount the peak on the 100th anniversary of the Duke of Abruzzi's landmark K2 expedition in 1909.