Manaslu - Road to the Mountain, Road to a Friend Backdrop Blur
Manaslu - Road to the Mountain, Road to a Friend Poster
NR 0h 49m

Manaslu - Road to the Mountain, Road to a Friend

On May 9, 1956, for the first time, the man stepped on the 8163-meter-high Manaslu, the eighth highest mountain in the world. In the fifty years of a long series of tragedies and triumphs in the mountain, two Slovenians were among the featured protagonists. On April 24, 1983, two climbers from Yugoslavia, trying to climb Manaslu from the south face, were buried under an avalanche. One of them was Nejc Zaplotnik, one of the most notable Slovenian climbers.

Top Cast

  • Tone Perčič

    Tone Perčič

    Himself

  • Viktor 'Viki' Grošelj

    Viktor 'Viki' Grošelj

    Himself

  • Reinhold Messner

    Reinhold Messner

    Himself

  • Tomaž Jamnik

    Tomaž Jamnik

    Himself

  • Stipe Božić

    Stipe Božić

    Himself

  • Mojca Zaplotnik

    Mojca Zaplotnik

    Herself

  • Ang Phurba

    Ang Phurba

    Himself

Overview

On May 9, 1956, for the first time, the man stepped on the 8163-meter-high Manaslu, the eighth highest mountain in the world. In the fifty years of a long series of tragedies and triumphs in the mountain, two Slovenians were among the featured protagonists. On April 24, 1983, two climbers from Yugoslavia, trying to climb Manaslu from the south face, were buried under an avalanche. One of them was Nejc Zaplotnik, one of the most notable Slovenian climbers.

Rating

NR / 10
0 Reviews
0 Popular

Recommendations

Night Will Fall

When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had happened. Making use of British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information’s Sidney Bernstein (later founder of Granada Television) aimed to create a documentary that would provide lasting, undeniable evidence of the Nazis’ unspeakable crimes. He commissioned a wealth of British talent, including editor Stewart McAllister, writer and future cabinet minister Richard Crossman – and, as treatment advisor, his friend Alfred Hitchcock. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US Governments, the film was shelved, and only now, 70 years on, has it been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums under its original title "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey".

Night Will Fall

7.6 2014