The Last Mountain (2022)

Directed by

Christopher Terrill

Genre

documentary

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

12

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary about the mountaineer Tom Ballard who died on Nanga Parbat. It also tells the story of his mother Alison Hargreaves who died on K2 twenty-four years earlier.

poignantreflectivesomberfactualreverentialcontemplativemelancholic

What happens

The Last Mountain is a 2021 mountain film co-produced by the BBC about the death of Tom Ballard on Nanga Parbat. The film follows the earlier documentary Alison's Last Mountain (1996) about the death of his mother Alison Hargreaves twenty-four years earlier on her descent from her second unaided summit of K2. The documentary received critical acclaim and won Best Mountain Film at the 2019 Kendal Mountain Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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