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Taylor and Harold are good friends and avid climbers. While climbing one day, they meet a man who it seems might be attempting to climb K2, the world's second-highest peak. Always pushy, Taylor bugs the man for a spot on the team, claiming that he and Harold are good enough. They may be very good, but K2 is a very tough mountain. Written by
Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
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Between the earth and the sky lies the sheer face of adventure.
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Trivia
The New York production of "K2" opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theater in New York on March 30, 1983 and ran for 85 performances.
Patrick Meyers wrote both the stage play and the screen play for this movie version.
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Goofs
British Columbia is spelled wrong throughout the credits ("British Colombia").
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Quotes
Harold:
It's beautiful
Taylor Brooks:
Course it's beautiful, did you think I'd take you to an ugly mountain?
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Connections
Referenced in
Incident at Loch Ness (2004)
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I Need Ya
by Zahid Tarag
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But, of course, it wasn't. Makes the climbing of the world's 2nd highest mountain look like a real tough day hike. Cast is okay, soap opera dialogue and plot-by-the-numbers is bearable, sometimes the scenery is outstanding, but where's the technical advice? I guess an accurate depiction of an 8000+ meter climb would be a little too tedious for Hollywood. Would be merely inoffensive if they hadn't trivialized the climbing of a mountain that has claimed so many lives.