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Seventh Festival "Vertical"

G4: A Peak Between The Past And War

Category: Mountain and wild nature
Year: 2002
Time: 69 min
Country: Switzerland
Director: Fulvio Mariani, Mario Casella

Subject: G4 stays for Gascherbrum 4: a peak of almost 8'000 m ( 26'000 ft.) in the Karakoram Himalayas. Êurt Diemberger, a very popular european climber and writer, called it " one of the most difficult mountains on earth". The documentary follows a group of 7 swiss-italian climbers during their attempt to climb for the first rime the north-east ridge of G4 in 2002, the international year of the mountains. This ridge was the same followed by the first climbers to reach the summit in 1958: Walter Bonatti and Carlo Mauri.


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G4:  A Peak Between The Past And War