Deutsche Eisenbahner im Kampf um den Nanga Parbat

Directed by Johannes Fritze

Short version of 'Nanga Parbat' (1936), the record of the 1934 German expedition to Nanga Parbat, led by Willy Merkl and with the full backing of the new Nazi government. Peter Aschenbrenner and Erwin Schneider reached an estimated height of 7,895m on July 6, but were forced to return because of worsening weather. On July 7 they and 14 others were trapped by a ferocious storm at 7,480m. During the desperate retreat that followed, three famous German mountaineers, Uli Wieland, Willo Welzenbach and Merkl himself, and six Sherpas died of exhaustion, exposure and altitude sickness, and several more suffered severe frostbite.

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Willy Merkl

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Peter Aschenbrenner

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Fritz Bechtold

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Willi Bernard

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Alfred Drexel

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Peter Müllritter

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Ulrich Wieland

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Ang Tsering

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Erwin Schneider

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Peter Misch

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Richard Finster

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Walter Raechl

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