Mount St. Elias (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Mount St. Elias |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German , English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 10 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gerald Salmina |
| script | Gerald Salmina |
| production | Gerald Salmina |
| music |
Andreas Frei (Theme), Ludwig Heili (Additional), Matt Reardon (Additional) |
| camera |
Günther Göberl , Michael Kelem , Franz Recktenwald , Gerald Salmina, Peter Thompson |
| cut | Gerald Salmina |
| occupation | |
Mount St. Elias is a documentary film by the Austrian director Gerald Salmina from 2009 . The film shows the adventurous expedition led by Axel Naglich , Jon Johnston and Peter Ressmann in 2007, during which Mount St. Elias was to be completely skied down for the first time.
action
To be the first to conquer Mount St. Elias and ski down to Icy Bay at sea level was the declared goal of the three extreme mountaineers Axel Naglich, Jon Johnston and Peter Ressmann.
May 2007
The team prefers the departure from base camp to Icy Bay and then climbs back up to Haydon Shoulder.
The first attempt to climb the summit and descend the mountain fails due to increasingly bad weather. After the first night of bivouac, Jon Johnston finally decides not to continue the ascent. Axel Naglich and Peter Ressmann cannot complete the tour as planned either, and the group begins the descent to Haydon Shoulder as one.
Once there, all they can do is retreat into a snow cave; the tents were too exposed and now unusable. In shifts, the men try to shovel the entrance free to prevent an air lock. During this time, exceptionally dramatic recordings are made, which clearly illustrate the extent of such a situation.
The group can be evacuated by plane in a closed window.
Jon Johnston then decides to give up the project and no longer take part in this expedition.
August 2007
Axel Naglich and Peter Ressmann start a second attempt to carry out the project in August 2007. This time the group is smaller and only consists of four men (Naglich, Ressmann, cameraman Beat Kammerlander and Volker Holzner as a supporting mountain guide). The ascent is successful and Naglich and Ressmann can also successfully complete the descent.
In retrospect, the film repeatedly focuses on a failed expedition from 2002, in which three American mountaineers, John Griber, Reid Sanders and Aaron Martin, also wanted to descend Mount St. Elias from the summit with snowboards and skis, but Sanders and Martin fatally crashed.
Reviews
- kino.de reported positively on the authenticity of the film recordings.
"Spectacular documentary mountain drama about three extreme sport alpinists, whose ascent of a glacier massif in Alaska with subsequent ski descent captivates as a borderline experience"
- film-dienst.de reported positively on the “breathtaking viewing values” of the landscape shots captured with the helicopter, as well as the feeling aroused in the viewer of being close to the images taken with helmet cameras. However, the film suffers dramaturgically from "the fact that the protagonists here only appear as ambitious functionaries of a daring adventure and ultimately remain interchangeable". - film-dienst.de
literature
- Axel Naglich, Rienhardt Joachim: Mount St. Elias, the longest ski run in the world . 2nd Edition. Tyrolia Verlag, Innsbruck 2010, ISBN 978-3-7022-3065-4 .
Web links
- Mount St. Elias in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Mount St. Elias . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2010 (PDF; test number: 123 905 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Mount St. Elias . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ kino.de [1] .
- ↑ film-dienst.de [ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ].
