K2

K2 (1991) is an adventure thriller from director Franc Roddam, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Michael Biehn and Matt Craven play two friends pulled toward the one peak that kills even the people who know what they're doing.

Taylor and Harold talk their way onto an expedition up K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth and far deadlier than Everest. Thin air, sudden avalanches, sheer ice walls, weather that turns in minutes. A millionaire named Clairborne foots the bill, but money buys you nothing above the death zone. Up there every climber answers for himself — and for whoever shares his rope.

Shot before digital effects took over, the climbing sequences were captured on real rock and snow, which is why the altitude feels genuinely suffocating from your own couch. It's for anyone who likes stories about friendship stretched to its breaking point and the price of one wrong step over a drop. Stream K2 (1991) online on iFILM.