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Apr 12, 2022 · The Disney+ documentary "Torn," tells the story of Alex Lowe's widow, Jennifer Lowe-Anker, marrying his best friend and fellow mountain climber Conrad Anker, 59, after his tragic death in...
Dec 14, 2021 · That’s Conrad Anker, who also happened to be Alex’s climbing partner and best friend. He was on Shishapangma with Alex, and was the one who called the Lowes to tell them about the avalanche.
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Torn is a 2021 American documentary film by photographer and explorer Max Lowe, son of the late climber Alex Lowe, who explored his father's high-profile mountain climbing death on the Himalayan peak, Mount Shishapangma, in 1999. His body was discovered 17 years after his death in 2016.
Daniel Anker's documentary "Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust," is a critical and thoughtful look at the way the film industry has depicted the World War II genocide.
Daniel Anker, a filmmaker whose sober documentaries brought unsensationalized narrative power to subjects including the trials of the Scottsboro boys and Hollywood’s treatment of the Holocaust,...
Jan 19, 2022 · Alex’s eldest son Max, 33, has now made a moving documentary about the trauma his family suffered — and the extraordinary way one man gradually took over the life of his dead best friend. Max now calls Conrad “Dad” and refers to his biological father as Alex.
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Dec 6, 2021 · When Alex Lowe, one of America’s most celebrated alpinists, died with fellow climber and cameraman David Bridges in an avalanche on Shishapangma in 1999, he left a wife and three kids behind. In the weeks and months following Lowe’s death, his friend and climbing partner, Conrad Anker, who had narrowly survived the very avalanche in which ...
