Reinhold Messner - "Nanga Parbat - Mein Schicksalsberg"

In the organizer's words:

There is hardly any other mountain where fame and tragedy are as close together as on the 8,125 m high Nanga Parbat. Reinhold Messner combines both like no other.

Accompanied by never-before-seen images and films, Messner's live lecture spans the arc from all the alpinists who have made history on Nanga Parbat to his own moving and exciting story.

He talks about Albert Mummery, the best mountaineer of his time, who disappeared in 1895 during the crossing from the Diamir to the Rakhiot side, about the unforgotten Willo Welzenbach, known as the "Ice Pope", who died in 1934 with eight men in a snowstorm - the last time he was marginalized; about Hermann Buhl, who was the first to reach the summit alone in 1953 against the orders of the expedition leader - a great moment in mountaineering! And a good 50 years later, when Steve House mastered the Rupalwand directly in a two-man rope team. Finally, he talks about his own fateful expedition in 1970, during which his brother Günther tragically lost his life. Eight years later, he achieved the feat of his life with the first solo ascent of an eight-thousander on the Diamir Face. After hell, he touched heaven on his personal mountain of destiny.