To understand the difficulties of an ascent to over eight thousand metres, it is enough to remember the almost 300 victims these peaks have claimed. The Swiss alpinist Ehrart Loretan, the third alpinist in the world to have climbed all 14 8,000, and the Austrian alpinist Kurt Diemgerger cover the whole history of the conquest of the world’s 8,000, from the fifties to the present day, together with other alpinists and film directors who have climbed them. They talk about their experienced when they ventured into the death zone.
Claude Andrieux
Director, Writer
Erhard Loretan
Self
Kurt Diemberger
Self
Jean-Christophe Lafaille
Self (archive footage)
Eric Escoffier
Self
Benoît Chamoux
Self (archive footage)
Pierre Béghin
Self (archive footage)
Jean Afanassieff
Self
Laurent Chevallier
Self
Jean-Michel Asselin
Self
14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible73%
Meru74%
Earth76%
Free Solo78%
The Alpinist78%
Grizzly Man75%
Wick Is Pain74%
Explorer: The Last Tepui75%
Everest66%
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey77%
180° South72%
The Dawn Wall80%
The Class of ‘9271%
La Panthère des neiges79%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Maria by Callas73%
Ronaldo70%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Ghost Elephants77%
The Cheshire Murders65%
