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Tuesday, 10. Nov. 2015

Martin Winkler
5 min
Free rider Martin ‚McFly‘ Winkler discovered surfing for the first time 16 years ago, and it became immediately his... mehr info >
Thomas Hillebrandt
52 min
The German extreme athlete Guido Kunze sets off to Chile in order to conquer the highest volcano on earth by bicycle... mehr info >
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Nils Kaltschmidt, Vincent Seidl
27 min
The Styrian extreme cyclist Jakob Zurl rides on one of the most dangerous streets across the Himalaya, nonstop. From... mehr info >
Shams
4 min
When acrobatic Paraglider Théo de Blic is on screen you usually here loud bass-loaded music to add drama. This time... mehr info >
Jon Herranz
29 min
In July 2014, Edu Marín took on the most challenging project of his life: climbing “Panaroma”, the legendary route... mehr info >
Vinicio Stefanello
22 min
Chris Bonington - one of the great mountaineers of the twentieth century - retraces the stories and adventures of a... mehr info >
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Darcy Turenne
47 min
The Little Things is a snowboard movie project featuring award-winning scientist David Suzuki alongside a cast of... mehr info >

Wednesday, 11. Nov. 2015

Stefan Köchel, David Schickengruber
12 min
In February 2015, the speed riders Dominik Lindebner and Stefan Stockinger set off to the Julian Alps. Their goal is... mehr info >
Alastair Lee
24 min
Yorkshireman Rob Jarman is a downhill mountain bike specialist and professional stuntman. One day at work he faces a... mehr info >
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Bryan Smith, David Pearson
53 min
A story about Will Gadd pushing the boundary of a sport through his imagination and dedication. The unique spray ice... mehr info >
Greg Hackett
4 min
What does it mean to be a responsible backcountry skier? With more people backcountry skiing than ever before, the... mehr info >
Dariusz Zaluski
32 min
Andrzej Bargiel is one of the best Polish ski alpinists. As a young boy from a remote small village he started to... mehr info >
Petra Rothmund
25 min
Fifteen years ago, an Austrian climber has discovered gneiss boulders in a forest near the village Ausserferrera in... mehr info >
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Guido Perrini
54 min
World-renowned freeriders Xavier De Le Rue, Samuel Anthamatten and Ralph Backstrom progress the sport of freeriding... mehr info >
Jim Aikman
78 min
A new route: “Metanoia” – solo, in winter, straight up the North Face of the Eiger As Jeff Lowe climbed it in 1991 he... mehr info >
Luis Trenker
90 min
Special Programme (beyond competition)
„The Mountain Calls“, produced by Luis Trenker in 1938, where he worked as screenplay writer, director and actor, is... mehr info >
Oakley Anderson-Moore
76 min
Stumbling upon her father's hi8 tapes, a daughter discovers a world of delinquent oddballs and wino nomad-poets who... mehr info >
Sebastian Scherrer
24 min
When a 9.0-magnitude earth quake shook the Japanese east coast in 2011, the power supply of the Fukushima nuclear... mehr info >
Luc-Henri Fage
52 min
“Diego de Almagro” is a desert island, lost in the confines of Chilean Patagonia, latitude 52 degrees south. To be... mehr info >
Wolfgang Murnberger
90 min
Special Programme (beyond competition)
In summer 1948, the South Tyrolean mountaineer, actor and director Luis Trenker travels to the Film Festival in... mehr info >
Inge Wegge
83 min
Three Brothers cross country ski in a white, barren landscape. Each has a sled in tow with a surfboard perched on... mehr info >
Geertjan Lassche
105 min
In April 2014, a group of Dutch climbers start an expedition to climb ‘Cho Oyu’, the sixth highest mountain in the... mehr info >
Pawel Wysoczanski
73 min
In October 1989 Jerzy Kukuczka dies during a Lhotse expedition. It was the first time he went to the Himalayas with... mehr info >
Eliza Kubarska
72 min
In the summer of 1986, several dozen alpinists from all over the world met to climb K2, the second highest mountain... mehr info >
Sasha Snow
88 min
Grant Hadwin was a logging engineer and formidable survivalist who lived and worked in British Columbia’s remote and... mehr info >
Gerald Salmina
120 min
The Streif is the ultimate challenge. Whoever dares to ski down it without being in the best physical and mental... mehr info >
Eva Spreitzhofer
95 min
Andy Holzer is an extreme mountaineer and he has already climbed six of the “Seven Summits”. What makes the... mehr info >

Thursday, 12. Nov. 2015

Anne, Erik und Véronique Lapied
70 min
Alexandre lives in a mountain village and since his childhood, he has, together with his father, herded almost a... mehr info >
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Hans-Jürgen Panitz
50 min
Hardly any person reaches such a high age as Norman Dyhrenfurth, son of the famous Himalaya expedition leader Günter... mehr info >
Ben Knight
8 min
There's no easy way to say goodbye to a friend, especially when they've supported you through your darkest times. A... mehr info >
Karin Duregger
52 min
Special Programme (beyond competition)
A knaggy nature boy with a felt hat and a mountaineer shirt, this is the picture of Luis Trenker, who died in 1990,... mehr info >
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Eduardo Gellner
49 min
A reckless idea, to climb two one thousand meter high limestone walls without rope and without partner. Solo. Both... mehr info >
Max Reichel, Franz Hinterbrandner
49 min
Skiing untouched mountain faces is a sport which has always been reserved for only a few chosen ones, and where the... mehr info >
A ticket for one of the main program blocks (Stefaniensaal, Steiermarksaal oder Kammermusiksaal) grants access to the whole Program of "Blauer Salon" and "Grüner Salon" on the day the ticket is valid for.
This year, Mountainfilm Graz also offers special "Salon-only"-tickets.
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Francisco D'Eufemia
16:00 - 71 min
In the early 1950s, a group of men and women from different corners of Europe met in Bariloche and began casually,... mehr info >
Andreas Pichler
17:15 - 40 min
If you are not fully concentrated, if you are not present, you have lost. This rule is also valid for musicians as... mehr info >
Colin Arisman
17:55 - 40 min
Casey Gannon and Colin Arisman thru-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail with cameras in hand. The film is the story of... mehr info >
Mikel Sarasola
18:35 - 50 min
This is not just white water kayaking, this is a real expedition: Starting from the bottom of Mount Fitz Roy, 3... mehr info >
Tom Allen, Leon McCarron
19:25 - 15 min
British adventurers Tom Allen and Leon McCarron set out to follow Iran's longest river, the Karun, by human powered... mehr info >
Gilles Charensol, Véro & Lionel Daudet
19:40 - 70 min
In August 2011, adventurer mountaineer Lionel Daudet - says Dod - left for an “exact” Tour de France: without... mehr info >
Max Lebsanft
20:50 - 27 min
Ecological devastation, lack of snow, the madness of Après-Ski. Alpine ski tourism has been more and more criticized... mehr info >
A ticket for one of the main program blocks (Stefaniensaal, Steiermarksaal oder Kammermusiksaal) grants access to the whole Program of "Blauer Salon" and "Grüner Salon" on the day the ticket is valid for.
This year, Mountainfilm Graz also offers special "Salon-only"-tickets.
Mehr Information zu den Salonkarten
Felix Heidinger
15:30 - 43 min
For animals of this size, it’s not easy to find enough space needed in the more and more densely populated Asia. In... mehr info >
Thomas Willers
16:15 - 44 min
After long grey winter months, what could be more alluring than accompanying springtime across a whole continent? The... mehr info >
Klaus T. Steindl
17:00 - 52 min
With the term „Waldheimat“ (forest homeland), the Austrian writer Peter Rosegger has given a name to a whole region... mehr info >
Harald Pokieser, Clare Dornan
17:55 - 50 min
The Nile is a truly outstanding river, because it has not one, but thousands of springs. This documentary leads us to... mehr info >
Ulf Marquardt
18:45 - 43 min
Elsewhere, the fishermen chase away the annoying whale sharks hitting them with painful machete blows. However, this... mehr info >
Felix Krüger
19:30 - 44 min
The scientists count it among the ten most dangerous volcanos of the world – Merapi, the fire mountain of Java. Alone... mehr info >
Kurt Mayer
20:15 - 52 min
A wolf searching for a new living space takes us with him on a fascinating journey across the wild Dolomites. The... mehr info >
Anja-Brenda Kindler, Tanja Dammertz, Christopher Gerisch
21:10 - 52 min
It is the symbolic animal of global warming: the polar bear. Scientists predict that the king of the Arctic will be... mehr info >
Eric Dragesco
22:05 - 55 min
The film maker Eric Dragesco is living for his passion. He shoots his nature films without orders and deadlines. For... mehr info >

Friday, 13. Nov. 2015

Leo Dickinson
50 min
Special Programme (beyond competition)
The movie continues along the destiny of three British mountain climbers, trying their hardest to ascend the rough... mehr info >
Leo Dickinson, Sven Allenbach
60 min
Special Programme (beyond competition)
In this panel discussion encounter two generations. Leo Dickinson – born in 1947 – fixed a five-kilo-camcorder on a... mehr info >
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Sven Allenbach, Samuel Gyger
52 min
This film documents the ambitious summer project of Ueli Steck and his mentor Daniel Mader. Ueli has climbed all 82... mehr info >
Gieri Venzin, Tilmann Remme
87 min
The first ascent of Matterhorn in July 1865 ended tragically, because four climbers fell to their deaths. Was it an... mehr info >
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Alastair Lee
29 min
Julian Lines is the best climber you've never heard of. He is undoubtedly Britain's most accomplished free climbing... mehr info >
Markus Frings
38 min
Christoph Hainz is considered to be one of the most versatile alpinists of his time and his name is for ever... mehr info >
Jürgen Gruber
75 min
Wolfgang Fasching is a living legend of endurance cycling. He has already won the ‘Race Across America’ three times... mehr info >
Paul Diffley, Chris Prescott
53 min
The documentary tells the controversial story of one of the world's best trad climbers. After a dramatic rise to... mehr info >
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Jochen Schmoll
52 min
Majlis al Jinn is a huge cave located in Oman and it is an epic challenge for the climbers Stefan Glowacz and Chris... mehr info >
Sean Villanueva O'Driscoll
55 min
Four years after “Vertical Sailing Greenland”, Captain Reverend Bob Shepton (79) calls the Wild Bunch - Sean... mehr info >
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Nick Rosen, Peter Mortimer
98 min
The greatest untold story of American counterculture is that of the Yosemite Valley rock climbers. For 50 years,... mehr info >
Jan Haft
44 min
Although Slovakia is located in the heart of Europe, we know almost nothing about this land. The biodiversity of the... mehr info >
Kurt Mayer, Judith Doppler
53 min
One hundred years ago, the first national park in the Alps has been founded in the Swiss Engadin, the so-called... mehr info >
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Franz Leopold Schmelzer
51 min
In Africa‘s most arid desert only specialists are able to survive, such as the Oryx antelopes, the spotted hyena or... mehr info >
Christian Labhart
82 min
Painter, anarchist and dropout: That was Giovanni Segantini. He created monumental works, mostly under the open sky... mehr info >
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Sabine Holzer
50 min
Be it the Yapese in Micronesia, the Inuit in Greenland or the Yanomami in Brazil, these peoples have succeeded in... mehr info >
A ticket for one of the main program blocks (Stefaniensaal, Steiermarksaal oder Kammermusiksaal) grants access to the whole Program of "Blauer Salon" and "Grüner Salon" on the day the ticket is valid for.
This year, Mountainfilm Graz also offers special "Salon-only"-tickets.
Mehr Information zu den Salonkarten
Mike Douglas
14:30 - 10 min
The volcanoes of Tongariro National Park in New Zealand mark the most treasured spot in all of Maori culture. They... mehr info >
Vincent Amouroux
14:40 - 51 min
Greenland, "Green Country" of the Vikings, carries a misleading name. In winter or summer, most of this autonomous... mehr info >
Sylvia Rothe
15:35 - 29 min
The social pedagogue Anke has been handicapped since her birth. This doesn’t impede her to face new physical... mehr info >
Astrid Kofler, Helmut Lechthaler
16:05 - 55 min
Alpine huts are like oasis in rock and stone deserts. After a straining ascent, the hikers find a place to rest, to... mehr info >
Andreas Nickel
17:00 - 50 min
Reinhold Messner was born in 1944 in Bozen, South Tyrol. At the tender age of five years, he already climbed the Sass... mehr info >
A ticket for one of the main program blocks (Stefaniensaal, Steiermarksaal oder Kammermusiksaal) grants access to the whole Program of "Blauer Salon" and "Grüner Salon" on the day the ticket is valid for.
This year, Mountainfilm Graz also offers special "Salon-only"-tickets.
Mehr Information zu den Salonkarten
Franz Walter
18:20 - 5 min
“We humans only give a guest performance on the planet earth” – according to this motto, the filmmaker Franz Walter... mehr info >
Peter Künzel
18:25 - 48 min
After his successes on summits all over the world, Alexander Huber has chosen a new big goal: the rock face... mehr info >
Christopher Stöckle
19:15 - 58 min
Since his early childhood, Rudolf, who is in the meantime 75 years old, has been attracted by the solitude in nature... mehr info >
Eloïse Barbieri
20:15 - 57 min
There is a valley in Afghanistan that has never known war - the Wakhan - a strip of land that unfolds amid high... mehr info >
Bartlomiej Swiderski
21:15 - 25 min
A film reminiscence about Piotr Morawski, a conqueror of six eight-thousanders and a participant of the first winter... mehr info >
Justine Curgenven
21:40 - 48 min
No-one had succeeded in kayaking along the remote and stormy Aleutian islands, where more than 20 long crossings... mehr info >
A ticket for one of the main program blocks (Stefaniensaal, Steiermarksaal oder Kammermusiksaal) grants access to the whole Program of "Blauer Salon" and "Grüner Salon" on the day the ticket is valid for.
This year, Mountainfilm Graz also offers special "Salon-only"-tickets.
Mehr Information zu den Salonkarten
Beat Bieri
14:30 - 50 min
Since 25 years, the Swiss bear scientist Reno Sommerhalder has been living in Canada among these huge fur-bearing... mehr info >
Fabian Fischer
15:25 - 15 min
Lenz is on his way to the mountains, where, at first, he is overwhelmed by summits and high mountain plateaus. Soon,... mehr info >
Rita Schlamberger
15:40 - 52 min
Forests are far more complex than previously imagined – as revealed in Rita Schlamberger’s latest film, "Making an... mehr info >
Gernot Lercher
16:35 - 97 min
With opulent pictures, this film portrays the most diverse Austrian border landscapes. Some of them are noisy and... mehr info >
A ticket for one of the main program blocks (Stefaniensaal, Steiermarksaal oder Kammermusiksaal) grants access to the whole Program of "Blauer Salon" and "Grüner Salon" on the day the ticket is valid for.
This year, Mountainfilm Graz also offers special "Salon-only"-tickets.
Mehr Information zu den Salonkarten
Angelika Vogel
18:20 - 52 min
A sparse country, thin air, raw climate – this is the homeland of the nine-year old Christobal and his father. The... mehr info >
Zoltan Török
19:15 - 47 min
Forget that dark swamp picture, the Everglades in fact is a crystal clear shallow river flowing slowly towards the... mehr info >
Marlo Poras
20:10 - 80 min
Juma and Latso, young women from one of the world’s last remaining matriarchal societies, are thrust into the... mehr info >
Jens-Uwe Heins
21:30 - 43 min
Lake Constance is Europe’s biggest lake in the north of the Alps. In addition to the mild climate, interesting... mehr info >
Anja Krug-Metzinger
22:15 - 52 min
How will future generations see our current lifestyle in about 50 years? The movie takes a look at our modern day... mehr info >

Saturday, 14. Nov. 2015

Alessandro Soetje
30 min
The shaman artist Lorenz lives by a busy road in the Alps. He earns his living by carving totems and painting stones... mehr info >
Simon Thussbas
52 min
The island Onekotan is situated in an unique position on our planet, on the Pacific Rim of Fire, somewhere between... mehr info >
Oliver Goetzl
55 min
Few places are as special and unique as Yellowstone National Park – America’s first national park. A wilderness jewel... mehr info >
Federico Santini
53 min
After the successful expeditions to the Karakorum and the Caucasus, photographer Fabiano Ventura and his team of... mehr info >
An diesem Abend haben Sie die einmalige Chance, alle Preisträgerfilme von Mountainfilm Graz 2015 zu sehen! Die... mehr info >
Christoph Boekel
43 min
The Russian Kamchatka, the largest peninsula of East Asia, extends 1200km from north to south. High rising partly... mehr info >
Arnold Rauch
26 min
This film portrays five deep-rooted giants in their full magnificence. They are big and gorgeous examples,... mehr info >
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Pavol Barabás
58 min
It was 90 years ago when a young Slovak student proved what was then unimaginable. Wieslaw Stanislawski climbed new... mehr info >
Leonhardt Steinbichler
43 min
The ten-year old Motup lives with his family in the Indian Himalaya, in the village Zangla on the Zanskar River, at... mehr info >
Angelika Sigl
44 min
For one year, Vaclav Chaloupek has been the surrogate mother for two brown bears. He has shared his house with them,... mehr info >
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Susanna Fanzun
93 min
In the big world of the small alpine pasture Alp Gün, the three children Braida (8), Marchet (6) and Jon (3) live... mehr info >
Ben Sturgulewski
6 min
The story takes a poetic and empathic look on the relationship between Santiago Guzman - freeskier- and his dog... mehr info >
Johannes Aitzetmüller
10 min
This film reflects one of the basic ideas of Tyroleans: the desire of freedom. A group of freeriders is looking for... mehr info >
Bertrand Delapierre
52 min
The story of Ernest Shackleton and his expedition to the South Pole is best known as a tale of hardship and survival... mehr info >
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Alastair Humphreys
8 min
Alastair Humphreys puts together a beautiful, historical and meaningful film about the legendary bothies. There are... mehr info >
Iara Lee
55 min
K2 is a very special mountain: a savage and a killer. To climb the second highest mountain in the world means to be a... mehr info >
William G. Taggart
23 min
This documentary is about the history of one of the most difficult multi-day self support whitewater kayak trips in... mehr info >
Max Reichel, Franz Hinterbrandner
49 min
In the French Haute-Provence you’ll find one of the most extraordinary and spectacular places of Europe: the Verdon... mehr info >
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Jareed Mehan, Olaf Obsommer
17 min
The Stikine River is considered as one of the most dangerous wild water rivers on earth. It flows 640 km across... mehr info >
Sacha Mirzoeff
53 min
For thousands of years, the native Canadians have cultivated the region between the Canadian Pacific Coast and the... mehr info >
A ticket for one of the main program blocks (Stefaniensaal, Steiermarksaal oder Kammermusiksaal) grants access to the whole Program of "Blauer Salon" and "Grüner Salon" on the day the ticket is valid for.
This year, Mountainfilm Graz also offers special "Salon-only"-tickets.
Mehr Information zu den Salonkarten
Fridolin Baur
09:00 - 27 min
The Lechtaler Alps end in the west on the famous Arlberg, the cradle of alpine skiing. In the very heart of this wild... mehr info >
Jocelyn Ford
09:30 - 83 min
In Eastern Tibet, young widow Zanta struggles with her autocratic father-in-law, who doesn’t want her son to go to... mehr info >
Mathieu Le Lay
10:55 - 53 min
The United States of America are known as a place of roaring pop culture and big cities that never sleep. French... mehr info >
Jon Earle
11:50 - 9 min
Exploring the parallels between endurance and how we today, are living on the planet. Ultra marathon runner Matt... mehr info >
Alastair Lee
12:00 - 3 min
„Boy“ is the film adaption of a short story by the English mountaineering author Niall Grimes. It presents a... mehr info >
A ticket for one of the main program blocks (Stefaniensaal, Steiermarksaal oder Kammermusiksaal) grants access to the whole Program of "Blauer Salon" and "Grüner Salon" on the day the ticket is valid for.
This year, Mountainfilm Graz also offers special "Salon-only"-tickets.
Mehr Information zu den Salonkarten
Andre Nutini, David Peacock
13:00 - 59 min
Four professional free skiers undertake a thrilling trip during their two-year project. They travel through Japan,... mehr info >
Petra Höfer, Freddie Röckenhaus
14:00 - 46 min
A fascinating change of perspective: this film shows a mystic parallel world under our feet. We glance into the... mehr info >
Heiderose Häsler
14:50 - 43 min
A team of audacious glider pilots and scientists from Berlin and Brandenburg intend to conquer Mount Everest – from... mehr info >
Bryan Smith, David
15:35 - 52 min
Will Gadd and Gavin McClurg, two accomplished paragliders, attempt to complete the first ever paragliding traverse of... mehr info >
Hervé Tiberghien
16:30 - 99 min
It all began with an old book: "Tarap, a valley in the Himalayas" portrays a small isolated community and its... mehr info >
Greg Hackett
18:10 - 5 min
How do you find balance in your life? Henrik Westling had hoped to find it in opening an outdoor shop in his... mehr info >
Bjarne Salén
18:15 - 59 min
Dream Line is a documentary about the magical power of dreams. The professional skier Ptor Spriceniek follows an... mehr info >
Alastair Lee
19:15 - 7 min
iPaddle is a persiflage of GoPro athletes whose main motivation consists in documenting their sportive selves... mehr info >
A ticket for one of the main program blocks (Stefaniensaal, Steiermarksaal oder Kammermusiksaal) grants access to the whole Program of "Blauer Salon" and "Grüner Salon" on the day the ticket is valid for.
This year, Mountainfilm Graz also offers special "Salon-only"-tickets.
Mehr Information zu den Salonkarten
Michael Petsch
09:00 - 29 min
This film explores the contrary world of the Ötz Valley and its inhabitants, such as the turbulent village Sölden and... mehr info >
Herbert Ostwald
09:30 - 43 min
The small village Rühstädt houses one of Germany’s biggest white stork rookeries. Every summer, almost 40 pairs of... mehr info >
Andreas Voigt
10:15 - 50 min
In the middle of the chaotic traffic mayhem, between cars and rickshaws, wiry men ride leisurely on their elephants... mehr info >
Holger Riedel
11:05 - 52 min
Mustang – the hidden kingdom in the heights of the Himalaya. A myth, a magical place, a microcosm of the Tibetan... mehr info >
Tina Kringer, Helena Hufnagel
12:00 - 13 min
The Popocatepetl is one of the most dangerous active volcanos in the world. An eruption would mean that around 24... mehr info >
A ticket for one of the main program blocks (Stefaniensaal, Steiermarksaal oder Kammermusiksaal) grants access to the whole Program of "Blauer Salon" and "Grüner Salon" on the day the ticket is valid for.
This year, Mountainfilm Graz also offers special "Salon-only"-tickets.
Mehr Information zu den Salonkarten
Mike Birkhead, Joe Loncraine
13:00 - 50 min
Sri Lanka is scattered with natural lakes, particularly with tens of thousands of artificial reservoirs and channels... mehr info >
Erik Baláž
13:50 - 48 min
As night falls, an ethereal mist creeps over an primeval forest. The howl of a wolf echoes across the mountains,... mehr info >
Klaus Weißmann
14:40 - 45 min
The peregrine is the fastest bird on earth. With a top speed of up to 300 kilometres per hour, it holds the top... mehr info >
Dennis Timm
15:25 - 18 min
An Italo-American researcher team extracts ice core samples from the glacier summit of the Ortler in South Tyrol. The... mehr info >
Bertilla Giossi
15:45 - 26 min
In the middle of march, „yellow 6“ has been caught by an avalanche and lost its life. The two national park rangers,... mehr info >
Paul Rose, Jonas Julian Köck
16:15 - 57 min
Elisabeth Lackner, the legendary so-called „Floitenschlagstaude“, has been a poacher and a rebel in the Tyrolean... mehr info >
Bernhard Rübe
17:15 - 43 min
Only a few kilometres away from the Atlantic coast in northern Spain, the 2600m high „Picos de Europa“ protrude... mehr info >
Axel Gomille
18:00 - 29 min
Again and again, wild bears keep wandering across the Alps to the north and on their way they roam through... mehr info >
Rick Rosenthal
18:30 - 50 min
Marine biologist and cameraman Rick Rosenthal has been filming in the ocean for decades. But one spectacle has eluded... mehr info >