Gerhard Longin

he Rätikon used to be a smuggling trail for blackeners, but today it has become the arena for exceptional alpine climbers. The Austrian extreme sports climber Beat Kammerlander faces his last big challenge, as he says. It is the ascent of the 'battle zone' - here the name says it all. Right next to it Nina Caprez and Barbara Zangerl try their hand at the 'Infinite History. A tough and difficult route that demands everything from the two professional climbers.

The central theme of this 'Hemingway documentary' is a massive ski tour that Hemingway, Dos Passos and their ski instructor Walter Lent undertook from Schruns to Galtür in Tyrol: 'We had a long march through the valley and finally up to the Madlenerhaus (1986 metres above sea level)'. Ernest Hemingway, who was called 'black, cherry-drinking Christ' by the locals, describes his experiences in Vorarlberg in his work 'Ein glücklicher Winter' and the ski tour from Schruns to Galtür in 'Gebirgsidyll'.

In autumn 1862, three enthusiastic students founded the second oldest mountaineering association in the world - the Austrian Alpine Association. After 150 years of eventful history, the association has always remained true to the basic values of the founding period: To spread knowledge about the Alps, to promote love for them and to facilitate their 'journey'. The most important founding member Paul Grohmann is portrayed by the well-known actor Simon Schwarz, who is also a member of the Alpine Club and a mountain friend in 'real life'.