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EVEREST UNMASKED MESSNER & HABELER ON EVEREST VIDEO EVEREST UNMASKED: MESSNER & HABELER ON EVEREST. The 1978 ascent of Everest by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler without oxygen. 52 minutes. THIS IS A VIDEO TAPE, NOT A DVD First Ascent of Everest without supplemental oxygen by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler in 1978. This is the actual expedition documentary filmed by highly acclaimed adventure filmmaker Leo Dickinson. Winner of 'Best Expedition Film' at both the Banff Film Festival and Telluride Mountain Films at the time. This film documents a milestone, an illustrious chapter in the history of mountaineering. It also has some rare historical footage of the early Everest expeditions: the tragic Mallory expedition, the pioneering Shipton expedition and the successful first ascent expedition by Hilary and Tenzing. For Messner and Habeler, two of the finest Alpine climbers of our time, the expedition is a combination of confidence and fear. They both feel they can summit Everest unaided, 'by fair means' but have no way of knowing the consequences - can they return without brain damage due to excessive exposure to the thin, freezing air? As they begin their climb their progress is rapid and confidence is high. Habeler recovers from a bout of food poisoning and they make a bid for the summit. Bad weather drives them back. The situation is now critical. Both men have been at high altitude for a long time. They set off in bad weather conditions. They stumble and crawl up, struggling for breath, inching toward their goal. They have climbed Everest without oxygen masks, and have survived. Now they have to go back down. Messner who has lifted his goggles too often is snow blinded. They have made a pact with one another, for survival's sake, to abandon the other should he become incapacitated..... Everest Unmasked captures the dangers, the suffering and the elation of this historic milestone expedition. BALLOONING OVER EVEREST: First Balloon Flight over Everest - 1991, filmed by highly acclaimed adventure film maker Leo Dickinson. Winner of 'Silver Gentian' award at the Trento Mountain Film Festival. In a field near the Nepalese hamlet of Gokyo, four men climb into two fragile wicker baskets and pour flame into their hot air balloons. Rising powerfully into the skies, their crafts follow a course towards the highest place on earth - Everest. For Leo Dickinson and Chris Dewhirst, the cameraman and pilot in one of the balloons, the flight will settle old scores after three previous attempts and several life threatening crashes. The expedition planning took some 10 years to come to fruition. And the expedition itself involved no less than 150 porters, 50 yaks, various meteorologists, intense arguments and many bemused locals. This extraordinary documentary follows Leo Dickinson's journey from Kathmandu in an old fashioned flying machine, which eventually crash lands in a remote corner of Tibet. You will see some of the most spectacular footage imaginable and the most astonishing mountain footage we are ever likely to see, as the balloon drifts over the highest point on earth.
EVEREST UNMASKED: MESSNER & HABELER ON EVEREST. The 1978 ascent of Everest by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler without oxygen. 52 minutes.
This film documents a milestone, an illustrious chapter in the history of mountaineering. It also has some rare historical footage of the early Everest expeditions: the tragic Mallory expedition, the pioneering Shipton expedition and the successful first ascent expedition by Hilary and Tenzing.
For Messner and Habeler, two of the finest Alpine climbers of our time, the expedition is a combination of confidence and fear. They both feel they can summit Everest unaided, 'by fair means' but have no way of knowing the consequences - can they return without brain damage due to excessive exposure to the thin, freezing air? As they begin their climb their progress is rapid and confidence is high.
Habeler recovers from a bout of food poisoning and they make a bid for the summit. Bad weather drives them back. The situation is now critical. Both men have been at high altitude for a long time. They set off in bad weather conditions. They stumble and crawl up, struggling for breath, inching toward their goal. They have climbed Everest without oxygen masks, and have survived. Now they have to go back down.
Messner who has lifted his goggles too often is snow blinded. They have made a pact with one another, for survival's sake, to abandon the other should he become incapacitated..... Everest Unmasked captures the dangers, the suffering and the elation of this historic milestone expedition.
First Balloon Flight over Everest - 1991, filmed by highly acclaimed adventure film maker Leo Dickinson. Winner of 'Silver Gentian' award at the Trento Mountain Film Festival.
In a field near the Nepalese hamlet of Gokyo, four men climb into two fragile wicker baskets and pour flame into their hot air balloons. Rising powerfully into the skies, their crafts follow a course towards the highest place on earth - Everest. For Leo Dickinson and Chris Dewhirst, the cameraman and pilot in one of the balloons, the flight will settle old scores after three previous attempts and several life threatening crashes.
The expedition planning took some 10 years to come to fruition. And the expedition itself involved no less than 150 porters, 50 yaks, various meteorologists, intense arguments and many bemused locals. This extraordinary documentary follows Leo Dickinson's journey from Kathmandu in an old fashioned flying machine, which eventually crash lands in a remote corner of Tibet.
You will see some of the most spectacular footage imaginable and the most astonishing mountain footage we are ever likely to see, as the balloon drifts over the highest point on earth.
BASEJUMP OFF TRANGO TOWER:
BASECLIMB: Two climbers ascend and parachute off Trango Tower, Karakoram. 52 minutes. World record BASE jump off the Great Trango Tower in the Karakorum, Pakistan, in 1992 by Australians Glenn Singleman and Nic Feteris. Filmed by highly acclaimed adventure film maker Leo Dickinson. This film has won 21 major international film awards. Those scenes where the baddies chasing James Bond fall off a mountain top are, understandably enough, enacted by dummies. 'The Most Dangerous Jump in the World' from the top of a 6,237ft cliff-face - is undertaken by real people, though you might still feel justified in calling them dummies! Things don't go as they planned. They tumble out of control and accelerate to 125 miles an hour while only inches away from the vertical wall of granite.....Nic Feteris does BASE jumping for fun. After ten years of these hair raising plunges he is looking for a fresh challenge.
With his partner Glenn Singleman, who has never BASE jumped before, he decides to climb the tallest cliff in the world and then launch himself off it. The Great Trango Tower in Pakistan has a vertical drop of over 6,000 feet high and looks awesome.
The story of the months of preparation, the three-week climb and the final moment of truth makes nail-biting film, a tribute not only to the derring-do of Feteris and Singleman but of the film crew which brilliantly captures their fear and exhilaration. The film is nicely paced with a measured build-up to the aching climb up the mountain before that heart-stopping leap into space and a descent which seemed to go on forever.
Few film sequences will remain fixed in the mind quite so long as that one. BASEClimb is more than just a great film about an amazing feat, it is a warm, personal account of a truly extraordinary adventure. Presented as part of National Geographic's Voyager III Series, it has been watched by over 100 million TV viewers in eighty countries.
13,000' descent of whitewater. 52 minutes. Dudh Kosi - Relentless River of Everest: First Kayak Descent of the Dudh Kosi River and world altitude record in kayaking. Winner of 12 major international film awards in 1976, including 'Best Film of Festival' at Banff.
The Khumbu Glacier, perched on the Himalayan slopes of Everest, melts at a height of 17,500 feet creating the source of the Dudh Kosi river. Dudh Kosi is the highest river in the world. It is the river of Everest. The film chronicles the ultimate kayaking adventure, 'a near kamikaze mission', as six Olympic-class kayakers, an all British team headed by Mike Jones and Mick Hopkinson, battle with white water at almost uncontrollable speeds through rocks, waterfalls, treacherous whirlpools and capsizes.
It is a story of teamwork, bravery, and true sportsmanship.Despite embarking in September at the worst point of the monsoon season, the expedition finds the source waters of the Dudh Kosi shallow, rocky and steep. The shallow water is a problem, but it is nothing when compared to the problems ahead - the river soon swells to a raging torrent, falling 13,000 feet in its first 50 miles. The kayakers need their highest level of concentration, and must be constantly alert.
They must take advantage of each stretch of calmer water as a relief from the muscle-straining struggle of negotiating a 30 pound kayak over 30 miles per hour waterfalls and through the notorious 'stoppers' where the water rushes back on the natural flow with overwhelming force. At this level the freezing water is a constant hazard; if the kayak capsizes survival time is measured in minutes. And scenes of boats being swept away and battered to pieces by the water are a stark reminder of the kayakers' ultimate stake in the adventure.Few adventures can equal 'The Dudh Kosi'. This film gives a graphic account of the thrills, spills and skills involved. The spectacular filming left nothing to the imagination.
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