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.
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Cast
12 people
Erhard Loretan
Self
Kurt Diemberger
Self
Also in
Il Mondo in camera
Jean-Christophe Lafaille
Self (archive footage)
Also in
Cold Haul
Eric Escoffier
Self
Benoît Chamoux
Self (archive footage)
Pierre Béghin
Self (archive footage)
Jean Afanassieff
Self
Also in
Death of a Guide
Laurent Chevallier
Self
Also in
La Vie sans Brahim
Jean-Michel Asselin
Self
Érik Decamp
Self
Pierre Royer
Self (archive footage)
Valentin Traversi
Narrator
Known for
You Are So Beautiful
Rosetta
Claude Andrieux Director
First release January 1, 1996 · Produced in France · Production France•3
Production
MC4
Production
France•3
Production
France
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Original title
La Zone De La Mort
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
France · January 1, 1996
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No release date listed for United States.
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