In 1959, Cesare Maestri and Toni Egger are said to have been the first to climb the more than 3,000-metre-high granite needle of Cerro Torre. Egger had a fatal accident on the descent and Maestri was unable to prove that they had reached the summit. Reinhold Messner searches for the truth in this documentary.
Direction
Messner himself interrogating decades-old ghosts
Cinematography
Cerro Torre looking impossibly, beautifully hostile
Editing
Reenactments that blur truth and performance
Director
Reinhold Messner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Compressor Route' became climbing's most hated artifact—Maestri's bolts remain a scar of alleged fraud.
Messner's 1970 Nanga Parbat tragedy (losing his brother) shadows his obsession with climbers who survive when partners don't.
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