FRI - SUN, JAN 3 – 5 / 7 pm
WED - THU, JAN 8 – 9 / 7 pm
Directed by Nick Ryan
2012, USA, 99 min
K2 in the Himalayas is known to climbers as the most difficult of mountains, a savage
peak, the second highest in the world, with the power to cloud men’s minds. One
morning in 2008, however, everything looked easy. “Conditions were perfect”, recalls
someone who was there. “It was a day in a million”. Or so it began. Within 48 hours,
things went drastically, horribly wrong. Eleven climbers perished, including seven who had reached the top and died on the way down. As presented in the compulsively watchable documentary The Summit, the story of what took place up there is a complex and gutclenching human drama that has the great advantage of all being true. The Summit not only investigates what happened during those terrible 48 hours, it also provides key
insights into the events leading up to the cataclysm. — LOS ANGELES TIMES
