The Six Great North Walls of the Alps

Gloomy, cold, forbidding, steep: The Alpine north faces are the epitome of extreme mountaineering. This applies in particular to the north faces of the Eiger, Matterhorn, Grandes Jorasses, Piz Badile, Großer Zinne and Aiguille du Dru.

Each of them is part of a well-known and distinctive peak, and each of them is associated with a milestone in Alpine history.

In the 20th century, they embodied those goals that a mountaineer had to have made in order to be among the elite. To this day, these walls form a popular and at the same time extremely dangerous arena for extremes.

In six episodes, each of these walls is portrayed and related human destinies, adventures and stories are told from new and surprising perspectives.

World-famous top mountaineers such as Robert Jasper, Roger Schaeli, Ueli Steck, Hansjörg Auer, Alexander Huber and Steve House demonstrate climbing art at the highest level with first and solo ascents. Spectacular images from the walls and breathtaking Cineflex recordings allow the viewer to take part in the action up close. Archive material, some of which has never been shown before, and interviews with mountaineering legends such as Reinhold Messner, Walter Bonatti and Sir Chris Bonington tell dramatic stories of triumphs and tragedies. Modernity and history merge into portraits of spectacular mountain landscapes and into adventure stories that show people in extreme situations.

TV documentation SeruvsTV (2016)

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