The Last Mountain (2021 film)

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The Last Mountain
Directed byChris Terrill
Produced byOlivia Lichtenstein, Julia Nottingham
Production
companies
Uppercut Films
Dorothy St. Pictures
Globus Pictures
Distributed byBBC Factual [1]
Release date
  • 26 September 2021 (2021-09-26)(London)
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

  1. "BBC announces feature length documentary The Last Mountain". www.bbc.co.uk.
  2. "BBC Two - The Last Mountain". BBC.
  3. "The Last Mountain review – a haunting tribute to mother and son". the Guardian. 26 September 2021.
  4. Singh, Anita (26 September 2021). "The Last Mountain, review: a piercing examination of one family's double grief". The Telegraph.
  5. "2019 Film Competition Winners". Kendal Mountain Festival.