A high-adrenaline tale of young climber Peter Garrett, who must launch a treacherous and extraordinary rescue effort up K2, the world's second-highest peak. Confronting both his own limitations and ...

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews Vertical Limit starring Scott Glenn and Chris O'Donnell. The movie's about the rescue of a team of climbers who're stranded on the temperamental ...

…until poor Annie ends up falling into a crevasse. To make matters worse, the crevasse is on K2, the second highest mountain in the world. She was supposed to be guiding the fabulously wealthy Texan ...

If Hollywood determined proper climbing technique, everybody would walk around with backpacks full of nitroglycerin and believe they could clear just about any jump as long as they yelled hard enough.