K2

An assistant DA and a physicist (Michael Biehn, Matt Craven) climb the world’s second-highest peak. Claiborne: Raymond J. Barry. Woolf: Luca Bercovici. Jacki: Patricia Charbonneau. Cindy: Julia Nickson-Soul. Shimuzu: Hiroshi Fujioka. Khan: Jamal Shah. Directed by Franc Roddam., Mountaineering drama about an expedition to climb the world’s second highest peak. Disaster strikes when two of the group are killed, forcing the remaining members of the party to make the final assault alone. Set against a backdrop of spectacular scenery., Adventure saga of a lawyer and a professor who go to Pakistan and attempt to climb the rugged heights of K2, the world’s second largest mountain that is considered more difficult to climb than Everest. The story is based on a Broadway play by Patrick Myers and was filmed on Canada’s Mount Waddington and at the base of the real K2 in Kashmir, Pakistan.