- Title
- Die Suche der Sherpas
- Language
- Dauer
- 52 min
- Director
- Heinz Leger
- Category
- Alpine Documentation
- When & Where
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Saturday,
17. Nov. 2012 from 09:00 / Stefaniensaal
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- Description
- The Sherpa are the true heroes of high-altitude climbing. They have been an invaluable help for the pioneers, who started to explore the Himalayas in the 1920ies. Without their knowledge as mountain guides and without their endurance and stamina as high altitude porters, even a part of the current mountain adventures could not be carried out. Yet, until today, the performances of the Sherpa have hardly been mentioned in the history books of mountaineering. This documentary follows four Sherpa with different backgrounds into their common adventure: the ascent of Mount Everest, organized in order to find out whether Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay had really been the first humans on the summit.
