What did „mountaineering“ mean in the GDR, in a land without high mountains and “behind a wall”? Bettina Wobst worked for a year to answer this question, she talked with contemporary witnesses, who give insights into the socialist climbing scene from various perspectives. The result is a collage made of thrilling, tragic but also funny stories dealing with “mountain dreams in the east”: from the beginning of climbing in the Saxon Switzerland after the war and the fiddle for a Visa for a Pamir expedition, to the drama of the Eiger north face in 1967, where the national team of the GDR lost their lives.