Here is the trailer from the upcoming film “THE SUMMIT”, opening in theaters everywhere on October 4, 2013. The film is directed by Nick Ryan.
K2 is commonly known as “Savage Mountain” and with good reason. With an unprecedented fatality rate of one in four climbers, it has rightfully earned the title of the second most murderous mountain in the world. THE SUMMIT tells a frightening story of K2 earning its name – in August 2008 when 22 climbers from several international expeditions converged on High Camp of K2. 48 hours later, 11 were killed or simply vanished into thin air. Like a horror movie come to life, it was as if the mountain began stealing lives, one climber at a time.
The recipient of the Sundance 2013 Editing Award and the World Cinema Documentary Film Editing Award, as well as a Grand Jury Prize nominee, THE SUMMIT is a seamless pastiche of the climbers’ firsthand footage and after-the-fact interviews and reenactments. It plays like an involving narrative film as it focuses on the mystery behind one extraordinary man, Ger McDonnell, who was left behind in the death zone as his best friend searched in vain to find him, rescuing several others. As the legend surrounding McDonnell and the 10 others grows, fearless new climbers are drawn to test themselves against the deadliest mountain on Earth.