The Last Mountain (2021 film)
The Last Mountain | |
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Directed by | Chris Terrill |
Produced by | Olivia Lichtenstein, Julia Nottingham |
Production companies | Uppercut Films Dorothy St. Pictures Globus Pictures |
Distributed by | BBC Factual[1] |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
The Last Mountain is a 2021 mountain film co-produced by the BBC[2] about the death of Tom Ballard on Nanga Parbat.[3] 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.[4]
The documentary received critical acclaim and won Best Mountain Film at the 2019 Kendal Mountain Festival.[5]
References
- ^ "BBC announces feature length documentary The Last Mountain". www.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "BBC Two - The Last Mountain". BBC.
- ^ "The Last Mountain review – a haunting tribute to mother and son". the Guardian. 26 September 2021.
- ^ Singh, Anita (26 September 2021). "The Last Mountain, review: a piercing examination of one family's double grief". The Telegraph.
- ^ "2019 Film Competition Winners". Kendal Mountain Festival.