The Summit
Seen it?2013 | 95 min | Adventure, Documentary, Drama
Weeknight Watchearly ratingWhy it’s a Weeknight Watch
With almost no lasting buzz and a box office loss, it's a mixed bag. Fine if it's on; don't plan your night around it.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Made for adventure fans and the curious. If you loved Tell Me Who I Am or Cartel Land, start here.
- The mood
- Exciting, eye-opening.
- The pace
- Takes its time with its characters, at 1 hr 35 min.
- What might put you off
- Rated R: meant for adults.
The Summit is a 2012 documentary film about the 2008 K2 disaster directed by Nick Ryan. It combines documentary footage with dramatized recreations of the events of the 2008 K2 disaster. On the way to and from the summit, eleven climbers died during a short time span creating one of the worst catastophes in climbing history. Much of the documentary footage was captured by Swedish mountaineer Fredrik Sträng. Sträng was planning to do a Documentary which was aborted due to the fact that he did not reach the summit. The footage was still valuable to help solving what really did happen since all the climbers had different stories about what happened.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsSolid
65% on Rotten Tomatoes, 63 on Metacritic
- AudiencesSolid
6.8 out of 10
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Box office & staying powerBelow par
$244K worldwide on a $1 million budget; still draws a steady audience long after release
- Buzz & cultural impactWeak
About 28K people sought it out in the past year
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Cast & crew
Directed by Nick Ryan
- Christine BarnesCecile Skog
- Christo MitzkovMarco Confortola
- Hoselito BiteHimself
- Marco ConfortolaHimself
- Cecilie SkogHerself
- Wilco Van RooijenHimself
- Alberto ZerainHimself
- Cas Van de GevelHimself
- Niall FoleyFrederik Strang / Cas Van de Gevel
- Pat FalveyHimself