I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

What I really liked about this movie was that it focused on the true danger of climbing the worlds tallest mountains, moreover the most dangerous, K2. Beautiful imagery has a shock and awe factor similar to what you would experience watching Planet Earth. Some of what you see is truly mesmerizing. For the most part the actors do a great job and it feels as if you're right there on the mountain as they tell their side of the story. The fact that this is based on a true story makes it all the more compelling to watch. Also, its very important to note that the prelogue states "what happened that day remains a mystery even to those who lived to survive the ordeal", meaning the cause of an event may seem unclear and that is because the details around the event are still not fully known.

If You did not know about these climbers before You would think that this was a fictionary. The scenes are so realistic that it took a good while to understand that it not was the real people but actors. I was both fascinated and sometimes annoyed over the behaviour of the climbers. But this was a movie that really got to You.Now we have learned that one of the climbers, the swede Fredrik Sträng will climb the K2 again! Thanks to this movie I will watch every steps he will take ans as i did watching this movie--Why?

Deaths in this sort of activity are nothing even remotely resembling unexpected. With something like over 80 deaths on K2 dying is something you can almost count on. If you are doing anything this risky for your own personal ambition or whatever you want to call it, then death hardly seems like a tragedy. It's sort of the same thing when you see a skateboarder get messed up doing a trick; it just seems like stupidity. And then some of these people not only put their own lives in peril but endanger the lives of the Sherpas who are just trying to make a living. Pretty despicable pastime if you want my opinion. And then for people to reproach others for not doing enough to save those people in trouble is completely stupid. None of these people had any business on this mountain unless they were all perfectly willing to die there.As far as the filming I never knew what was "real" and what was dramatization which robbed the documentary of much of its impact. This is a real shame because there is some amazing footage of the mountain in the film.

"He discovers things about his own body and mind that he had almost forgotten in the day-to-day, year-to-year routine of living." James Ramsey Ullman, High Conquest.I don't know about you, but if I were approaching the "death zone" while mountain climbing, I'd turn back. However, you can bet the heroes of the documentary, The Summit, hiking the world's second biggest and most difficult mountain (it defeats 1 out of every 4 climbers), K2, had no such thoughts. The Summit won the Sundance World Cinema documentary award this year.More interesting than the physical exploits is the rationale for doing such a dangerous sport in the first place. Yet, such psychoanalyzing is not a matter for The Summit, a thrilling doc long on the difficult climb and more difficult decisions while fates are decided in sometimes inscrutable and random ways. It's short on the motivation, which pretty much is accepted these days as, "because it's there." Eleven climbers of 25 lost their lives that day in 2008 without an adequate explanation for any of the deaths. However this thesis is proved once more: Most lives in climbing are lost on the descent. The film has a fragmented, multiple-points-of-view (think of a climbing Rashomon) approach that cuts among the several players and history while featuring a couple of the more charismatic climbers, especially Ger McDonnell, whose death is the most difficult to understand even as he's touted for his alleged attempt to save 3 Korean climbers. This discursive storytelling can be confusing while it saps the thrust of the inherently intriguing story. The many re-enactments drain the film of its immediate "what-the" doc impact. The film retains some of the awe we all feel when in the presence of such a manifestation of Nature's power: "You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn