Bern 14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OitZgY4a3gc This 2003 National Geographic documentary is a classic, outlining the trials and rigors of climbing Mount Everest. If you are feeling the need for some serious adventure, the documentaries on this list will definitely deliver, as they transport you to the Himalayas and share stories of triumph, tragedy, and incredible journeys. This film takes a look at what may have gone wrong for her and features previously unreleased footage of the last hours of Shriya’s life. Norgay began the expedition as the head Sherpa but was soon promoted to a full member of the climbing team because he displayed such incredible aptitude on the mountain. NO LOGO (8’; Spain; Jon Herranz, Gerard Peris).
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All of the Sherpas are blunt in their explanations of what it means to be guides for foreign climbers and the risk that it entails.
Since the disatrous earthquake in 2015, the nepalese people are still suffering from the consequences in their daily life - reaching a doctor can take up days - and that’s why the doctors decided to help and just go there themselves!
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For four weeks, the friends Andreas, Matthias and Markus followed the famous Annapurna circuit to the remote village of Humde in the Manang Valley. Adam Bielecki returns to the Himalayas together with Denis Urbuko and Alex Txikon to attempt the ascent of the Kangchenjunga: it will be a challenge between human force and the grandeur of nature to reach the peak at 8586 m. LES FAISEURS DE RÊVES (64’; Switzerland; Stéphane Schaffter).
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For the third successive year, the UIAA awarded the Best Climbing Film prize during the final weekend of the Trento Film Festival, held from 27 April – 7 May. They all studied in Munich and still spend. Mountains have always mystified mankind. Switzerland, office (at) theuiaa.org
This film also highlights the hard work and necessity of Sherpas, but this time in the context of them actively guiding a group of European climbers to the summit of Everest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNAPThPR1GM Covering the 2008 avalanche on K2, this documentary outlines exactly what happened when 11 mountaineers lost their lives in this tragedy. Jordi Canyigueral’s documentary attempts to find a link between the four by combining sport, art and nature. Host Bob McKeown travels to Nepal to investigate her fatal climb. Brette Harrington has asserted herself on the international scene thanks to some spectacular ascents, demonstrating clearly that she is one of the rising talents in the world of climbing.
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The team made an attempt in 2008 that ended in heartbreak. THE ART OF CLIMBING (8’; Austria/Switzerland, Florian Klingler). Viesturs cites Maurice Herzog’s story of climbing Annapurna (in which he lost his gloves, resulting in the subsequent amputation of all 10 fingers and all 10 toes) as inspiration for wanting to climb Himalayan peaks. 54 climbers never came back. Join the team in their feelings of fatigue, anxiety and exposure during their five weeks attempting one of the world’s greatest, unsolved puzzles of alpinism: The unclimbed Southeast Ridge of Annapurna III.