La zona della morte

Year: 1998 Duration: 26 minutes Above the fateful altitude of eight thousand meters above sea level the border between life and death becomes extremely labile. It is "The Death Zone", an expression introduced by Reinhold Messner to indicate the summit part of the highest mountains on Earth, the nightmare of all mountaineers who try to climb them. Ehrart Loretan, the third man to have climbed the fourteen eight-thousanders, Kurt Diemberger, who in his career has spanned the entire history of the Himalayan conquest, and many other protagonists of non-European mountaineering discuss their extreme experiences at the limits of human possibilities. In French with Italian subtitles.