Storyville
Season 18 Episode 5 - K2: The Killer Summit
In August 2008, 25 climbers from several international expeditions converged on high camp of K2, the final stop before the summit of the most dangerous mountain on earth. Just 48 hours later, 11 had been killed or simply vanished, making it the deadliest day in mountaineering history. In a century of assaults on K2, only about 300 people have ever seen the view from the planet's second highest peak. More than a quarter of those who made it didn't live long enough to share the glory. At the heart of this documentary lies a mystery about one extraordinary Irishman, Ger McDonnell. At the very limit of his physical resources, he faced a heartbreaking dilemma. Through recreations, archive and home movie footage, and interviews with survivors and families, the film creates a forensic, vivid version of events that is emotive, engrossing and, at times, deeply shocking.
Episodes in Season 18
Mandela, The Myth and Me
85 min
Big Brother Watching Me: Citizen Ai Weiwei
85 min
The Big Melt - How Steel Made Us Hard
85 min
Mad Dog: Gaddafi's Secret World
85 min
K2: The Killer Summit
85 min
Cutie and the Boxer
85 min
Soccer Coach Zoran and his African Tigers
85 min
The Village that Fought Back: Five Broken Cameras
85 min
Muscle Shoals: The Greatest Recording Studio in the World
85 min
Brakeless: Why Trains Crash
85 min
Shooting Bigfoot: America's Monster Hunters
85 min
Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
85 min
Searching for Sugar Man
85 min
The Legend of Billie Jean King - Battle of the Sexes
85 min
The Lance Armstrong Story - Stop at Nothing
85 min
Velorama
85 min
A Sunday In Hell
85 min
Web Junkies: China's Addicted Teens
85 min
The Himalayan Boy and the TV Set
85 min
Arms Dealer: The Notorious Mr Bout
85 min
The Gatekeepers
85 min
Particle Fever: The Hunt for the Higgs Boson
85 min
Russia's Toughest Prison: The Condemned
85 min
112 Weddings
85 min
Exposed: Magicians, Psychics and Frauds
85 min
Panto! Mayhem, Make Up and Magic
85 min
