The Summit (2013)
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 15
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 3
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Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 3
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 3.5/5
User Ratings: 151
Movie Info
K2, commonly known as Savage Mountain, is an extension of the northwestern Himalayan Mountain range and is located in the remote region between Pakistan and China. With an unprecedented fatality rate of one in four climbers, it has rightfully earned the title of the second most murderous mountain. But with any high risk sport comes the love of the challenge, and in August 2008 22 climbers from several international expeditions converged on High Camp of K2, the last stop before the summit.
Oct 4, 2013 Limited
IFC Films
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Lochlann O'Mearain
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Garrett Philips
Wilco VanRooijen -
Pemba Gyalje
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Christo Mitzkov
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Tshering Lama Bhote
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Pasang Lama
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Niall Foley
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Christine Barness
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Johannes Moser
Rolf Bae -
Stefan Grossniklaus
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Brian Hall
Hugues D'Aubarde -
Kelsang Dawa
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Nyima Tsering
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Phurbu Tsering
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Concetto LaMalfa
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All Critics (15) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (3)
Nick Ryan's documentary The Summit pieces together the fateful expedition utilizing newsreel footage, new and old interviews with the climbers and their associates, and, regrettably, re-enactments.
Top CriticI'm afraid it will only leave some audience members with the same nagging question I had at the beginning. Why on earth do people do this?
At once visually impressive and narratively unfocused.
A complex and gut-clenching human drama that has the great advantage of all being true.
A pulse-pounding success.
Director Nick Ryan mixes in re-creations and actual footage to tell of an ill-fated climb involving an international group of established mountaineers.
The Summit tries to make sense of what happened through this haze of fact and memory, but certain vital questions are left unanswered (through no fault of the filmmakers').
The Summit joins a small but distinguished canon, which include Jon Krakauer's best-selling Into Thin Air and Kevin Macdonald's gripping documentary Touching the Void.
The way director Nick Ryan seamlessly intercuts the recreation of the climb with the abundant archival film of the actual climb makes this one of the best mountain climbing movies ever.
Homage to 37-year-old McDonnell and the others who perished or were seriously injured in that worst day on the world's most dangerous mountain.
Director Nick Ryan dramatizes this horrific tale through a variety of hindsight interviews from survivors and the dead's loved ones, footage shot by the climbers during their mission, and staged recreations ...
Reenactments in documentaries are always a tricky business, but here, they feel necessary. The staged scenes communicate just how visceral mountaineering can be.
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