Richard Cowper

In his sixtieth year, Brian Blessed makes a last attempt to climb Mount Everest. If he succeeded he would be the oldest climber to have done so but nineteen ninety-six proves to be the worst climbing season, claiming eleven lives in four weeks. The program follows his attempts through treacherous weather conditions, as he tries to fulfill his dream of reaching the summit. Previously Blessed attempted to climb Mount Everest twice, in 1991 and 1993 respectively.

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.