Christian Schlesener

French Provence is home to one of the most spectacular and exceptional places in Europe: the Verdon Gorge. For decades, it has been an Eldorado for extreme sports enthusiasts who pursue their passion on the steep walls, the wild river and the airy heights. Stefan Glowacz and Christian Schlesener, two professional alpinists from Bavaria, have been trying their luck on one of the most difficult multi-rope routes in the gorge for over ten years and have failed countless times, yet they keep coming back. Like the kayakers, slackliners and paragliders. All athletes are united by a passion for adventure. But the shared moments and the experience of nature will also shape their memories of the gorge.

Robert Jasper is an elite mountaineer. No other climber in the world is in such high standards of performance in all varieties of alpinism. His hobby is ice climbing. In the film he takes us through all the stages of his ice climbing career. From the ascent of the NE wall of the 4,099 meter high Monch to the frozen couloirs in the Mont Blanc massif, to the extreme ice climbing. We accompany him to Chamonix, the Basler Jura and to Garmisch-Partenkirchen. We see him in 'Nuit Blanche WI 6' in Argentiere, the most difficult icefall in the Alps. This is a film about personal peak experiences.

The brothers Alex and Thomas Huber, together with the Tyrolean Mario Walder join forces in the summer of 2012 on the island of Baffin to complete the liberation of Bavarian direct (700 m of route and originally ranked as 6b/A3) in the South Tower of Mount Asgard. Its chaining, made in roped style alternating the pitches, places this route in the second step of the difficulty in Arctic rock (with a maximum degree of 8a+, very close to the 8b that the brothers Pou and Hansjörg Auer gave to their 'The door' in Perfection Valley). The Germans solved the pitch left by the Belgians and Silvia Vidal in 2009. In the film the Huber brothers meet the German team that opened the route in 1996 and the Belgian team who almost free-climbed it in 2009.