Programme - Friday 19 October 2018 - Evening

Marcel and Andrezj are very different characters. Marcel likes to hog the limelight, while Andrezj always caters the support act. Yet, together, they form a strong team and were the first to storm the highest peaks of their animated world. Presently, the two likeable cartoon heroes face their greatest challenge, and their path is riddled with obstacles. Even worse, Andrezj is fed up with his existence in Marcel’s shadow

He has perfected solo climbing like nobody else. His free solo climb of “Path through the Fish” on Mt. Marmolada made Hansjörg Auer famous. According to him, however, the most difficult part is not the ascent, but the return home. It’s only then that he realises how crucially important it is to have a relationship. A powerful and clever insight into an unusual life.

It is the 3rd of September 2017. Czech professional climber Adam Ondra is currently one of the world’s best. Inside the spectacular Hanshelleren Cave in Norway, he aims to write climbing history on this very afternoon. His objective is to open the first route at a 5.15d level of difficulty. Later on, he will name the world’s new hardest line “Silence”.

Two young freeriders intend to climb Mont Blanc, Mt. Matterhorn, Monte Rosa and Gran Paradiso on skis from the Aosta Valley. Their tour through a lonesome and untouched winter landscape lasts 20 days and grants views of the Alps’ highest peaks. Their own adventure gradually becomes entangled with a story that took place over 40 years ago.

We’ve all been that kid in the back of their parents’ car, wishing dearly to be somewhere completely different. Dreams grow wings and during a drive through the snow-laden cities of British Columbia they actually come to life: Isn’t that Tom Wallisch beside the car, one of the world’s best free skiers, jumping across rooftops and sliding down railings?

Marcel and Andrezj are very different characters. Marcel likes to hog the limelight, while Andrezj always caters the support act. Yet, together, they form a strong team and were the first to storm the highest peaks of their animated world. Presently, the two likeable cartoon heroes face their greatest challenge, and their path is riddled with obstacles. Even worse, Andrezj is fed up with his existence in Marcel’s shadow.

Together with his brother Alexander, Thomas Huber has managed to turn his mountaineering passion into a profession. Despite lasting athletic success, the love for his children and a happy marriage he is burdened by the pressure to juggle it all. To find release, the older Huber boy among all possible hobbies picks one that is even more dangerous than climbing: BASE jumping.

For locals, Nepalese Mt. Ama Dablam (6,814 m / 22,356 ft) is a holy mountain, for many others at least the world’s most beautiful. In 1978 Peter Hillary together with three friends hopes to open its west face, but the mountaineers are hit by an ice avalanche. Reinhold Messner and Oswald Oelz happen to be climbing on the same mountain on a different route. They terminate their tour immediately and try to achieve the impossible: to save the New Zealanders. A race against time ensues …

In 2017 Reinhold Messner received the Great Prize of the City of Tegernsee.

Marcel and Andrezj are very different characters. Marcel likes to hog the limelight, while Andrezj always caters the support act. Yet, together, they form a strong team and were the first to storm the highest peaks of their animated world. Presently, the two likeable cartoon heroes face their greatest challenge, and their path is riddled with obstacles. Even worse, Andrezj is fed up with his existence in Marcel’s shadow.

In January 2015 climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson hope to complete the Yosemite Valley’s Dawn Wall. The ascent takes 19 days in total, during which they have to rely entirely on themselves on the rock face. Tommy in particular is driven by his traumatic past: he was captured by rebels in Kyrgyzstan, a few years later lost an index finger and faced the end of his marriage to his longstanding climbing partner.

We’ve all been that kid in the back of their parents’ car, wishing dearly to be somewhere completely different. Dreams grow wings and during a drive through the snow-laden cities of British Columbia they actually come to life: Isn’t that Tom Wallisch beside the car, one of the world’s best free skiers, jumping across rooftops and sliding down railings?

In 1909 Austrian climber Florian Frederick Graf von Liechtenstein leaves his estate near Innsbruck. He travels to Corsica to go climbing – and disappears without a trace. 90 years later, the Count’s grandson Otto commissions two film makers to help him clear up the mysterious disappearance. They uncover much more than expected, particularly regarding the true history of alpinism.

The Jura Mountains are the Alps’ smaller brother. They are a multifaceted low mountain range extending along the French-Swiss border, relatively unknown, characterised by untouched nature. From springtime in the colourfully blooming Ajoie Region, Northern Switzerland’s orchard, to summer in the idyllic Vallée de Joux and freezing cold winters in the coldest part of Switzerland – the year in the Jura holds many surprises in a region which is both rough and lovely.

The Langtang Valley in Nepal is much loved by trekkers and was hit by the devastating earthquake of 2015 with full force. An avalanche of ice, rock and mud poured down its hillsides. Hundreds of people died, whole villages were destroyed and the survivors evacuated to Kathmandu. When they return, they search for the remains of their former lives: for livestock, the foundations of their houses – and for the bodies of their buried relatives.

Help that facilitates self-help is the key to progress through individual initiatives in countries we call underdeveloped. A cooperation between the Technical Universities of Munich and of Kathmandu strikes out on a path which one would not have expected in this context. The young team does not let unexpected difficulties deter it from creating solutions for access to education, information and easier living conditions in even remote regions of Nepal. Help from outside is only the first step – from then on, self-help is called for!

We’ve all been that kid in the back of their parents’ car, wishing dearly to be somewhere completely different. Dreams grow wings and during a drive through the snow-laden cities of British Columbia they actually come to life: Isn’t that Tom Wallisch beside the car, one of the world’s best free skiers, jumping across rooftops and sliding down railings?

It is the 3rd of September 2017. Czech professional climber Adam Ondra is currently one of the world’s best. Inside the spectacular Hanshelleren Cave in Norway, he aims to write climbing history on this very afternoon. His objective is to open the first route at a 5.15d level of difficulty. Later on, he will name the world’s new hardest line “Silence”.

He has perfected solo climbing like nobody else. His free solo climb of “Path through the Fish” on Mt. Marmolada made Hansjörg Auer famous. According to him, however, the most difficult part is not the ascent, but the return home. It’s only then that he realises how crucially important it is to have a relationship. A powerful and clever insight into an unusual life.

Marcel and Andrezj are very different characters. Marcel likes to hog the limelight, while Andrezj always caters the support act. Yet, together, they form a strong team and were the first to storm the highest peaks of their animated world. Presently, the two likeable cartoon heroes face their greatest challenge, and their path is riddled with obstacles. Even worse, Andrezj is fed up with his existence in Marcel’s shadow.

Two young freeriders intend to climb Mont Blanc, Mt. Matterhorn, Monte Rosa and Gran Paradiso on skis from the Aosta Valley. Their tour through a lonesome and untouched winter landscape lasts 20 days and grants views of the Alps’ highest peaks. Their own adventure gradually becomes entangled with a story that took place over 40 years ago.