FILM AND VIDEOS

Kurt Diemberger Films Available for Presentation

K2 - MOUNTAIN OF DREAMS AND DESTINY(Videofilm- 55 minutes.) 

Winner of seven international awards.

Story of a thirty year association with this mountain of mountains, from Kurt Diemberger's first view of K2 with Hermann Buhl in 1957.  Explorations, attempts, the summit at last in 1986, and the final tragedy. 

Can be combined with a slide show on the same topic-  200 Lieca slides.

TASHIGANG (Video- 55 minutes.) 

Winner of three international awards.

A theme about mountain people and personal experience- Tashigang- a Tibetan village poised between the world of humans and that of spirits and gods.

Can be combined with a slide lecture:  either Everest from five directions or Everest and Makalu - in the skies above Tibet (discovering the secret valley Beyul Khenbalung and Kurt's climb of the two eight thousanders). 

These fantastic presentations will allow you to learn more about mountain photo and film expeditions from Kurt Diemberger.  The Camera Man of the 8000s will present his experiences, as he wishes to pass on the legacy of the "Highest Film Team In The World", formed with the late Julie Tullis (together, they filmed on Everest, Nanga Parbat and in the Karakoram).

Kurt is the only person alive to have made the first ascent of two of the world's 8,000 meter peaks, Broad Peak in 1957 and Dhaulagiri in 1960.  He climbed each without supplemental oxygen. Broad Peak, which he climbed with the late Hermann Buhl, was the first eight-thousander to be climbed in Alpine Style, long before this technique became widely used on the Himalayan giants. 

Kurt has in all, climbed six of the eight-thousanders, however, he is probably best known for his 30+ year association with K2, and for surviving the "Black Summer" of 1986 which claimed the lives of 13 climbers.  This saga became the subject of one of climbing's most widely read books, "The Endless Knot",  the award-winning movie, "Mountain of Dreams and Destiny", as well as several episodes of the recent National Geographic series "Quest for K2". 

In addition, he has climbed in virtually all of the world's mountain ranges, including many first ascents from the Alps to the Himalayas, from Greenland to Africa.  He continues to receive awards for films, photographs, and literature.   Kurt is one of the most renowned climbers, an influential writer who has published books in more than a dozen languages, and an indomitable survivor.  Unable to escape the pull of the mountains, Kurt has returned after the K2 tragedy to the great ranges, and continues both lecturing and climbing mountains over the world.

If you are interested in having Kurt Diemberger present one of his films or videos, and speak about them,  please contact us. 

More to come!  Please check back from time to time to see additions to this page.