In the winter of 2021, a group of 60 climbers—a mix of professional mountaineers, Sherpas, and an uncomfortably large number of novices on a paid expedition—gather at a Himalayan base camp to attempt one of the last unclaimed feats in alpine sport: summiting K2 in winter. The Last First: Winter K2, from documentarian Amir Bar-Lev, charts how this bold collective faces down the mountain, and what it costs them, as competition, commercialism, and outright negligence collide in a perfect storm. Lives are lost, lessons are few, and the takeaway feels grimly simple: mistakes were made. Read More