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Docudrama / Chronicle
K2 and the invisible footmen
Iara Lee (2015)
Statistically, for every four climbers who summits K2, one of them will die, and the mountain has the second highest fatality rate among the world's highest peaks. 'It's the father of all mountains...one mistake and you're dead', warns one climber. As the climbing season only lasts from May through to August, porters must make enough money in these months to support themselves through the rest of the year. 'It's difficult to make ends meet... there is no other source of income', complains one: of his seven children, he can only afford to send two of them to school.- 2015
- USA
- 55 min
Statistically, for every four climbers who summits K2, one of them will die, and the mountain has the second highest fatality rate among the world's highest peaks. 'It's the father of all mountains...one mistake and you're dead', warns one climber. As the climbing season only lasts from May through to August, porters must make enough money in these months to support themselves through the rest of the year. 'It's difficult to make ends meet... there is no other source of income', complains one: of his seven children, he can only afford to send two of them to school.Climbing locations
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Documentary / Historical
Nanga Parbat - Schicksalsberg
Andreas Nickel (2014)
The Nanga Parbat, 8,125 m, the 9th highest mountain on earth, the 'naked mountain'. Known as the fateful mountain of the Germans, it was climbed for the first time in 1953 by the Tyrolean Hermann Buhl. Numerous German expeditions failed before that. In this Bergwelten episode, Reinhold Messner presents the eight-thousander from his perspective and shows the uniqueness of this mountain in the Western Himalayas (Pakistan), which also became his personal mountain of fate.- 2014
- Austria, Germany
- 51 min
The Nanga Parbat, 8,125 m, the 9th highest mountain on earth, the 'naked mountain'. Known as the fateful mountain of the Germans, it was climbed for the first time in 1953 by the Tyrolean Hermann Buhl. Numerous German expeditions failed before that. In this Bergwelten episode, Reinhold Messner presents the eight-thousander from his perspective and shows the uniqueness of this mountain in the Western Himalayas (Pakistan), which also became his personal mountain of fate.Climbing locations
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Documentary / Chronicle
G4 - Una cresta tra passato e guerra
Mario Casella (2002)
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.G4 - Una cresta tra passato e guerra
- 2002
- Switzerland
- 69 min
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.Climbing locations
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Conquering the mountain
James McQuillan (2000)
Conquering the mountain is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in K2. It was directed by James McQuillan in 2000 and produced by FilmOasis. It is a part of the series Quest for K2 (3/6). It features Greg Child, Kurt Diemberger, Jim Curran, Teruo Matsuura, Nazir Sabir, Wanda Rutkiewicz and others.- 2000
- USA
- 27 min
Conquering the mountain is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in K2. It was directed by James McQuillan in 2000 and produced by FilmOasis. It is a part of the series Quest for K2 (3/6). It features Greg Child, Kurt Diemberger, Jim Curran, Teruo Matsuura, Nazir Sabir, Wanda Rutkiewicz and others.Climbing locations
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Documentary / Chronicle
Om
Frank Booze (2007)
An impressive steam train in Afghanistan, which runs across the border with Pakistan, puts us in a past century, where people still live in today seems just as many thousands of years. Only one of the passengers came from the West. A windsurfer and filmmaker who has made ??his way into a hidden valley in the mountains of Pakistan to visit his good friend Nazir Sabir. Nazir is a famous mountain climber who has ascended five eight thousand already. The aim of the trip is to look at Pakistan, India, Nepal and Tibet to the highest lakes in the Himalayas in order to attempt a world record height in wind-and kite surfing.- 2007
- Austria
- 36 min
An impressive steam train in Afghanistan, which runs across the border with Pakistan, puts us in a past century, where people still live in today seems just as many thousands of years. Only one of the passengers came from the West. A windsurfer and filmmaker who has made ??his way into a hidden valley in the mountains of Pakistan to visit his good friend Nazir Sabir. Nazir is a famous mountain climber who has ascended five eight thousand already. The aim of the trip is to look at Pakistan, India, Nepal and Tibet to the highest lakes in the Himalayas in order to attempt a world record height in wind-and kite surfing.Climbing locations
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Drama / Adventure
K2
Franc Roddam (1991)
Taylor and Harold are good friends and avid climbers. While climbing one day, they meet a man who it seems might be attempting to climb K2, the world's second-highest peak. Always pushy, Taylor bugs the man for a spot on the team, claiming that he and Harold are good enough. They may be very good, but K2 is a very tough mountain.- 1991
- Japan, UK, USA
- 102 min
Taylor and Harold are good friends and avid climbers. While climbing one day, they meet a man who it seems might be attempting to climb K2, the world's second-highest peak. Always pushy, Taylor bugs the man for a spot on the team, claiming that he and Harold are good enough. They may be very good, but K2 is a very tough mountain.Climbing locations
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