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Luis' last Journey
Luis' letzte Reise

Director(s): Alix von Melle, Tom BergsteinerAT, DE29 min.2025
60%(2 ratings)
Categoriesdocumentary
Accessibilitynot suitable for minors under 15 years of age
LanguagesGerman (orig.)
SubtitlesSlovak
Black and white / colourcolor

On May 30, 2023, the German mountaineer Luis Stitzinger was found dead at an altitude of 8,400 meters on Kangchenjunga, just five days after he reached the summit. It was his tenth eight-thousander. He had climbed seven of them with his wife, Alix von Melle. A little over a year later, Alix travels to Nepal again to fulfill her husband's last wish: Scatter his ashes on one of the high peaks in the land of his dreams. The chosen mountain is the 7,246-meter peak Dhaulagiri VII in the Nepalese Himalayas.

Projection of Luis' last Journey at MOUNTAINS AND CITY 2026
Film block: MOUNTAINEERING
* Program subject to change