The Death Zone

To understand the difficulties of an ascent to over eight thousand metres, it is enough to remember the almost 300 victims these peaks have claimed. The Swiss alpinist Ehrart Loretan, the third alpinist in the world to have climbed all 14 8,000, and the Austrian alpinist Kurt Diemgerger cover the whole history of the conquest of the world’s 8,000, from the fifties to the present day, together with other alpinists and film directors who have climbed them. They talk about their experienced when they ventured into the death zone.

Cast

Erhard Loretan

Self

Kurt Diemberger

Self

Jean-Christophe Lafaille

Self (archive footage)

Eric Escoffier

Self

Benoît Chamoux

Self (archive footage)

Pierre Béghin

Self (archive footage)

Jean Afanassieff

Self

Laurent Chevallier

Self

Jean-Michel Asselin

Self

Érik Decamp

Self

Pierre Royer

Self (archive footage)

Valentin Traversi

Narrator