Dario Spreafico

Hans Kammerlander crowned Manaslu in 2017, along with Stephan Keck, and skied down through a new route. That’s the way these two great mountaineers found redemption after the tragedies they went through on that same mountain years before. With archive footage, interviews and magnific dramatic reconstructions, the film goes through Kammerlander’s greatest achievements and his most painful losses. He is one of the greatest alpinists in history, who keeps asking himself how and why he survived while his best friends passed away in the mountain.

A 1931 article by Vittorio Varale begins this journey presenting the personalities and rock faces of the centuries-old mountaineering history of Grigna, a mountain in the Prealps, close to the big cities of the Lombard plain. Here varius generations with a passion for alpinism have written in different ways, but with identical enthusiasm, the story of these pinnacles and towers. The film ends with Marco Anghileri who interprets an original and ideal way of linking together thesebeautiful mountain routes, marked by the course of the sun, from dawn to dusk.

G4 - Una cresta tra passato e guerra is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in Gasherbrum Iv. It was directed by Fulvio Mariani in 2002 and produced by Iceberg-Film. It features Walter Bonatti, Riccardo Cassin, Nazir Sabir, Fosco Maraini, Giuseppe Oberto, Roberto Bassi and others.