Karsten Scheuren

What motivates mountaineers to invest 40,000 euros and more in an adventure that could literally be their last? We accompany extreme sportsman Lukas Furtenbach and his team very closely on their ascent to the highest roof in the world.

ProSieben MAXX accompanies the extreme sportsman Lukas Furtenbach and his team of twelve on an elaborate world record attempt. 'We want to write film history at Everest. Our aim is to shoot the best real images of Everest there are. The previous altitude record for comrade drones is around 6,500 metres,' says the 38-year-old. But can the homemade drone really fly at 8848 meters and break the world record?

Short version of the documentary '7 tage im september'. In September 2012, the Bavarian extreme mountaineer Benedikt Böhm sets a world record in speed mountaineering. Without oxygen devices, he reaches the summit of Manaslu and skies down in record time. But over the summit victory hangs a dark shadow. A few days before, when he and his mountain mate Sebastian Haag started the ascent, eleven climbers had been killed by an avalanche at this mountain. Barely the two escaped from the avalanche. They were the first on the scene of the accident and helped to recover the dead and injured. Two years later, Sebastian Haag is tragically killed by an avalanche at Shisha Pangma. Benedikt Böhm survives.

7 tage im september is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in Manaslu. It was directed by Karsten Scheuren in 2014 and produced by Kick Film. It features Benedikt Böhm, Sebastian Haag, Ralf Rieske, Greg Hill, Silvio Mondinelli, Boris Kurz and others.

Tyrolean Markus Kronthaler rises his arms to the sky. He stands on the summit of the 8047 meter high Broad Peak. A few moments later he collapses and dies of exhaustion and lack of fluids, only a few metres away from the summit. His brother and companion Georg has to leave the corpse up there. One year later, Georg Kronthaler, together with two friends, the mountain rescuers Paul Koller and Stefan Lackner, and with six Pakistan high altitude porters, comes back to the mountain to pick up his dead brother from the summit of this 8.000m peak. A risky enterprise and a competition against time.