EigerNordwand wins
The documentary co-production between the Swiss-German television company SF-DRS and the French-German TV channel Arte, EigerNordwand- Auf den Spuren der Erstbesteiger (“Eiger North Face – In the Footsteps of Its First Climber”) has won awards at the Festivals of Banff and Graz. The programme is directed by Frank Senn and Thomas Ulrich. It won the Kamera Alpin in Gold prize at the 15th edition of the International Festival of mountain and adventure films at Graz, as well as the Alpine Club Canada Prize for Best Climbing Film at the 28th edition of the Banff Festival of Mountain Films (Canada). Eiger-Nordwand - Auf den Spuren der Erstbesteiger follows the trail of the Swiss mountaineers Stephan Siegrest and Michel Pitelka, who climbed the North face of the Eiger with the same equipment used when it was first scaled in 1938.
(Translated from French)
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