Storyville - Season 18 Episode 5 K2: The Killer Summit
In August 2008, 25 climbers from several international expeditions converged on high camp of K2, the final stop before the summit of the most dangerous mountain on earth. Just 48 hours later, 11 had been killed or simply vanished, making it the deadliest day in mountaineering history.
In a century of assaults on K2, only about 300 people have ever seen the view from the planet's second highest peak. More than a quarter of those who made it didn't live long enough to share the glory.
At the heart of this documentary lies a mystery about one extraordinary Irishman, Ger McDonnell. At the very limit of his physical resources, he faced a heartbreaking dilemma. Through recreations, archive and home movie footage, and interviews with survivors and families, the film creates a forensic, vivid version of events that is emotive, engrossing and, at times, deeply shocking.
First Air Date: Nov 15, 1997
Last Air date: Jun 18, 2024
Season: 28 Season
Episode: 660 Episode
Runtime: 85 minutes
IMDb: 7.57/10 by 7.00 users
Popularity: 19.708
Language: English
Keyword : current affairs
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Mandela, The Myth and Me
Big Brother Watching Me: Citizen Ai Weiwei
The Big Melt - How Steel Made Us Hard
Mad Dog: Gaddafi's Secret World
K2: The Killer Summit
Cutie and the Boxer
Soccer Coach Zoran and his African Tigers
The Village that Fought Back: Five Broken Cameras
Muscle Shoals: The Greatest Recording Studio in the World
Brakeless: Why Trains Crash
Shooting Bigfoot: America's Monster Hunters
Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
Searching for Sugar Man
The Legend of Billie Jean King - Battle of the Sexes
The Lance Armstrong Story - Stop at Nothing
Velorama
A Sunday In Hell
Web Junkies: China's Addicted Teens
The Himalayan Boy and the TV Set
Arms Dealer: The Notorious Mr Bout
The Gatekeepers
Particle Fever: The Hunt for the Higgs Boson
Russia's Toughest Prison: The Condemned
112 Weddings
Exposed: Magicians, Psychics and Frauds
Panto! Mayhem, Make Up and Magic
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