The Summit

Name: The Summit
Genre: Adventure, Documentary
Released: October 4, 2013
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 63

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IFC Films | Release Date: October 4, 2013 | R

Summary: The story of the deadliest day on the world's most dangerous mountain, when 11 climbers mysteriously perished on K2.

Director: Nick Ryan

Genre(s): Adventure, Documentary

Rating: R

Runtime: 95 min

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Marc Mohan

Oct 10, 2013

The Summit does an amazing job of putting you on the mountain, making it one of the most terrifying horror films a climber or an acrophobe could ever see. Read full review

Neil Genzlinger

Oct 3, 2013

The film over all is a pulse-pounding success. Read full review

Joe Williams

Oct 10, 2013

It’s a measure of the movie’s success that we never stop to question how or when the trickery is employed. Read full review

Steven Rea

Oct 11, 2013

There is a lot of finger-pointing. Assertions are made, theories offered, but not much in the way of certainty. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

Oct 3, 2013

Interviews with survivors fill us in on the personalities of the lost, but the background of K2, with archival footage from 1954, is equally gripping. Read full review

Chuck Wilson

Oct 1, 2013

The Summit is at its most powerful when the filmmakers simply tell the tale, which gradually develops the unsettling suspense of a horror movie, with K2 cast as the implacable killer. Read full review

Randy Cordova

Oct 10, 2013

Nick Ryan’s documentary looks at the disaster by using interviews, actual footage and re-enactments. The latter move undercuts some of the movie’s authenticity. Granted, there probably wasn’t another way to film it, but it muddies the film’s sense of truth. Read full review

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Tyranian

Dec 9, 2019

A dramatic but fairly disjointed doco about a climbing disaster on the world's second-highest mountain.

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