The Beckoning Silence (43 page)

Tough filming conditions.

Roger Schaeli in costume as Toni Kurz.

Hinterstoiseer checks his digital camera while Kurtz calls home.

Toni Kurz gets 'frostbite' sprayed onto his left hand.

Kurz death scene.

Keith Partridge descending gingerly towards the Hinterstoisser Traverse.

Keith Partridge, mountain cameraman extraordinaire with the 1,000 foot high Rote Fluh looming behind him.

The team preparing to film rockfall sequences on the summit slopes of north flank of the Monch.

Joe waiting for the rockfall scene.

Joe filming at the Swallows Nest.

Joe descending for a piece to camera on the Hinterstoisser Traverse

Selected Reading

Daniel Anker,
Eiger: The Vertical Arena

Walter Bonatti,
On the Heights

Walter Bonatti,
The Great Days

Chris Bonington,
I Chose to Climb

Chris Bonington,
Mountaineer

Joe Brown,
The Hard Years

Hermann Bühl,
Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage

Riccardo Cassin,
Fifty Years of Alpinism

Jim Curran,
High Achiever: The Life and Climbs of Chris Bonington

René Desmaison,
Total Alpinism

Leo Dickinson,
Filming the Impossible

Kurt Diemberger,
Summits and Secrets

Fergus Fleming,
Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps

Mick Fowler,
Vertical Pleasure

Peter and Leni Gillman,
The Wildest Dream: Mallory

Peter Gillman and Dougal Haston,
Eiger Direct

Alison Hargreaves,
A Hard Day’s Summer: Six Classic North Faces Solo

Heinrich Harrer,
The White Spider

Dougal Haston,
In High Places

Dougal Haston,
The Eiger

Mark Helprin,
A Soldier of the Great War

Jon Krakauer,
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains

Jon Krakauer,
Into Thin Air

Hamish MacInnes,
High Drama

Hamish MacInnes,
Look behind the Ranges

Reinhold Messner,
The Big Walls

Reinhold Messner and Horst Hofler,
Hermann Bühl: Climbing without Compromise

Tom Patey,
One Man’s Mountains

Gaston Rebuffat,
Starlight and Storm

David Robertson,
George Mallory

Arthur Roth,
Eiger: Wall of Death

Joe Tasker,
Savage Arena

Lionel Terray,
Conquistadors of the Useless

Walt Unsworth,
North Face

Don Whillans,
Portrait of a Mountaineer