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3 | ''K2: Siren of the Himalayas'' is a 2012 documentary about an expedition to climb K2, the second-highest mountain in the world, but considered by many to be the most challenging climb. The climb covers a team lead by American climber Fabrizio Zangrelli in 2009 interspered with accounts from the first attempt to scale the peak lead by Duke Luigi Amedeo in 1909. |
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5 | !!This film contains examples of: |
6 | * TheAllegedCar: The vehicles that take the expedition to K2 are...not reliable. |
7 | * EverythingTryingToKillYou: As is typical of Himalayan mountains. Even the car trip is dangerous. |
8 | * FriendOrIdolDecision: Zangrilli on one of his climbs was within an hour of the summit, but saw a porter that had suffered a stroke, so the priority became getting him down the mountain. |
9 | * HairTriggerAvalanche: The team tells of an incident the previous year, when a chunk of ice came loose and torn out the fixed ropes the expedition at the time was using. As a result, many of them were lost on the mountain. |
10 | * MultiNationalTeam: The main climbers are American, German and British. |
11 | * PlotParallel: The modern climbers are shown interspersed with accounts from Duke Amadeo's expedition a hundred years before, as they have some of the exact same experiences, [[spoiler:up to having to turn back before summiting]]. |
12 | * ScalingTheSummit: Climbing up K2, of course. [[spoiler:They wind up turning back before getting there.]] |
13 | * SceneryPorn: K2 is situated among some of the most spectacular vistas in the world, and the cameras, modern and old, just love it. |
14 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: the climbers tell how some people, once they get to Condordia, and are faced with the towering mountains themselves, decide they want out right then and there. |
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