Films: 2009
The Conquest of the Alps
Over the mountain - Through the mountain - Up the mountain - The White Coal - The Pioneers
In the heart of Europe there lies a desert of snow, ice and rock. Vast, violent and with extreme climatic conditions, this desert is known as the Alps. It is no place for man. Indeed for the longest time in history, the Alps were a hostile region which offered but a handful of dangerous routes through them. The age of industrialisation led the human imagination to soar to new heights. Pioneers wanted to harness fire, steam, coal and iron to defy time and space. The forefathers of human flight risked their lives in hand-modelled aircraft so as to defeat the… 2009, BR, 5 x 45 min