[VIDEO] Samsara

In diesem Full Feature Film, der im Jahr 2009 auf zahlreichen Bergsport Festivals gezeigt wurde, geht es um den Versuch einer Erstbegehung von Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin und Renan Ozturk an den Vindhya Mountains in Indien. Hautnah kann man dabei das Abenteuer des Himalaya Bergsteigens miterleben, wenn das Wetter eben mal nicht mitspielt...

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In the heart of the lofty, knife-sharp Vindhya Mountains in India sits a 6,500-foot rock and ice route that resembles a massive shark fin and rises from the ocean of crags.

This fin, that is twice as long as anything on El Capitan and just as steep, has denied many notable climbers from reaching its summit. In Samsara, Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk set out to attempt a first ascent. The film is woven together with art, journal excerpts and still photography.

Produced by the athletes, Samara is an unfiltered perspective into a powerful Himalayan climbing experience. The team spends twenty days of life on the cliff face with ten days of food through major storm cycles on a hanging platform smaller than the size of a single bed.

They push to the very edge of what they thought possible and rediscover why they are drawn to suffer in such sacred and beautiful places.

QuelleRenan Ozturk (Vimeo User)