[MrBarlow]

K2. 1991.

Michael Biehn and Matt Craven play Taylor and Harold, two experienced climbers who meet Raymond J Barry, a millionaire who is funding a expedition party to climb the second highest mountain.

The creation of the two characters is amazing, one a lawyer who is a arrogant wamanizer and the other is a happily married man and a scientist with doubts about the new hike up a mountain that has claimed a lot of lives yet both men willing to risk everything for achievement. Barry's character is what you would expect, a bit brass and cocky, remorseful that he didn't get to see the top and yet willing to leave everyone behind to save his own ass. The scenery/set design is how you would picture it, temperatures that would freeze the ball off a brass monkey and looking for a sign saying Death Awaits. Hanz Zimmer's background score is amazing and haunting especially during the last trek and you expect something to happen then it doesn't and then it does. A film i'd happily sit through again.