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Director
Nick Ryan
Credits
Producer: Nick Ryan. Writer: Mark Monroe
Principal Cast
Cecilie Skog, Wilco Van Rooijen, Alberto Zerain, Pemba Gyalje Sherpa
Category
Documentary
In 2008 eleven climbers died in twenty-four hours in what was the worst mountaineering disaster ever on K2, the world’s second highest mountain, a tragedy that is the subject of this investigative documentary. Interviews, found footage, and reconstructions build on the here-up-to scant information about the climb in explaining the various accidents that befell the climbers and how they came to be trapped in a high-altitude ‘death zone’. Ger O’Donnell, the first Irishman to conquer K2, is the point around which The Summit revolves as it performs this exploration. An award-winner at the Sundance Film Festival, The Summit mixes an exploration of the psyche which sends people up K2 with a slowly unravelling mystery, as a web of imprecise and even contradictory information is untangled in telling a story of bravery amidst life-threatening risk.
95 minutes, Ireland/United Kingdom/United States/Switzerland, 2012, Colour
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 13:50, 20:50
IFI EVENING COURSE: INTRODUCTION TO SCREENWRITING
KIDNAPPED 12:55, 18:00
PERFECT DAYS 15:30, 18:15
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 13:00, 15:40, 18:10, 20:30
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 16:00, 20:45
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