A WINNER...
based on the true story of the 1953 assault on Nanga Parbat, a treacherous
Himalayan peak.The world's foremost limbing team attempts to scale the
unconquered peak of the notorious Nanga Parbat, "King of mountains."
For champion climber Hermann Buhl, success is a passionate obsession, and
the summit dares him on. For team leader Karl Herrligkoffer, the conquest
will avenge his brother's death twenty years before and win glory for their
German homeland.
Wrestling their
personal obsessions, testing their physical limits, and battling the treacherous
slopes, the men clash wills and Buhl strikes out alone. The experience changes
his life forever...when he confronts life, death, and victory on a spectacular
frozen peak.
