The Ortler. Its summit rises like an ice-armoured castle out of the grandiose mountain landscape in western South Tyrol – a harbinger of the four-thousanders of the Western Alps.
Ortler-Südtirol’s King of the Mountains, the film by Gerald Salmina (producer) and Jochen Hemmleb (director), portrays the rich and very different facets of the mountain giant with a unique mixture of extreme sports action and landscape impressions.
Ortler – this is a playground for cross-border commuters. At the beginning of the film, the South Tyrolean mountain guide and professional mountaineer Christoph Hainz, the extreme skier Axel Naglich from Kitzbühel and the Val Gardena speedriding pilots Armin Senoner and Guido Senoner set off for the north face of the Ortler. While Hainz and Naglich climb through the shimmering blue ice wall, which has lost little of its wild ambience and menace to this day, the two speed riders with skis and paragliders fly down through the icy funnel of the wall for the first time and complete the speed ride trilogy through the north faces of the triumvirate Königspitze-Zebru-Ortler. But that’s not all: After reaching the summit, Naglich and Heinz ski down the dizzying Minnigerode gully in the Ortler south face. Three walls, three extreme sports – one day!
TV documentation ServusTV: Bergwelten (2016)