24/P11: Achttausender Legenden

**HERBERT TICHY – WANDERER ZWISCHEN DEN WELTEN**
Austria 2012, Lutz Maurer, 45 min, German

**GASHERBRUM – DER LEUCHTENDE BERG**
Germany 1985, Werner Herzog, 44 min, German

Herbert Tichy was a world traveler, adventurer, philosopher, and author. A serious, quiet man, his essence is captured in the portrait *HERBERT TICHY*. At 21, he set off in 1933 from Vienna to India by motorcycle and, disguised as a pilgrim, circled the sacred Mount Kailash. Seventy years ago, he achieved the first ascent of Cho Oyu with Pasang Dawa Lama, Sepp Jöchler, and Helmut Heuberger—likely the smallest expedition to ever conquer an 8000-meter peak.

The eccentric German director Werner Herzog was uniquely suited to accompany Reinhold Messner and Hans Kammerlander on one of their most extreme tours. With *GASHERBRUM – DER LEUCHTENDE BERG*, Herzog created an impressive documentary of the monumental achievement by the pair, who, in the summer of 1984, climbed two 8000-meter peaks, Gasherbrum I and Gasherbrum II, in a single push without returning to base camp. The film also includes a poignant segment on the death of Messner’s brother Günther. A piece of alpine history.