GASHERBRUM, DER LEUCHTENDE BERG

“How was it when you had to face your mother and deliver the news of your brother’s death?” Stunned, Reinhold Messner breaks down under the weight of Werner Herzog’s question. Days later he sets off on an adventure with his buddy, Hans Kammerlander, the likes of which has never been seen before in mountaineering: the first double ascent of two eight-thousanders using Alpine style climbing.
In this drama Werner Herzog and his protagonist do not cut each other any slack. One is obsessed with making a new contribution to the history of climbing, the other relentless in fathoming the psyche of the one obsessed. Two brothers in spirit who don’t pass each other by. Daniel Sponsel