Screening of “Nanga Parbat” by Joseph Vilsmaier, in collaboration with Reinhold Messner

The film narrates the tragic expedition in Pakistan in 1970 to Nanga Parbat – the ninth highest mountain on earth - in which Messner’s brother, Günther, was hit by an avalanche at the end of an adventurous descent on the unexplored side of Diamir. Reinhold searched for him, without success, and finally descended alone, appearing in base camp six days later with serious frostbite on his feet and he had to have six toes amputated. In 2005, when the body of Günther was found at an altitude of 4,300 metres, at the foot of the Diamir wall, the last word was written on the accusations made by some of the expedition members against Reinhold Messner for having abandoned his brother in difficulty.