View filmThe Alps - Climb of Your Life
2007 Film


In 1959, Cesare Maestri and Toni Egger are said to have been the first to climb the more than 3,000-metre-high granite needle of Cerro Torre. Egger had a fatal accident on the descent and Maestri was unable to prove that they had reached the summit. Reinhold Messner searches for the truth in this documentary.
Directed by Reinhold Messner
Selected stills from the film


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