Zion Forever Project hosts screening of “The Women of K2”
By Michael Plyler
The Zion Forever Project will present a screening of Jennifer Jordan’s film “The Women of K2” with questions from the audience to follow. The screening will be held April 12 at 7:30 p.m. at the Canyon Community Center in Springdale.
Between 1986 and 1995, the first five women made it to the summit of the world’s second highest mountain. By 1998, they were all dead, three on descent and two climbing on other 8,000-meter mountains. This documentary examines their lives and reveals how and why each of them perished in the perilous world of high altitude.
Jennifer Jordan is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and screenwriter with many years experience as a journalist, broadcast producer, and radio and television news anchor. Her most recent projects are the documentary “3000 Cups of Tea” and the memoir “Perfect Strangers,” which she wrote with one of the Boston Marathon bombing victims. Previously she wrote “Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women of K2.”
The Fern and J. L. Crawford Lecture Series is a collaborative presentation of Zion Forever Project and the Division of Resource Management in Zion National Park. This lecture is made possible by a generous grant from the National Park Foundation. For more information call (435) 772-3264.
The Canyon Community Center is located at 126 Lion Blvd. in Springdale.
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