Product Details

• Actors: Heinrich Harrer, Anderl Heckmair, Eric Jones
• Directors: Leo Dickinson
• Format: Color, Digital Sound, Dolby, Original recording remastered, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Adventure Eye
• DVD Release Date: September 14, 2004
• Run Time: 51 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00064YTKW
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #113,331 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Climbing Magazine 1984

...certainly a film which deserves wider viewing and amply qualified as the Best Mountaineering film of the festival (Telluride).

Product Description

Widely acclaimed by serious climbers as a masterpiece of a mountaineering film. Winner of 5 major film awards: "Best Mountaineering Film" at Telluride Mountain Film Festival and at Trento Mountain Film Festival in 1982, "Best Film" at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival and San Sebastian International Film Festival and "Grand Prize" at the Gravity Sports Film Festival.

"Eiger Solo" is a documentary of the first British solo ascent of the Eiger North Face. Welsh mountaineer Eric Jones' ultimate dream was to climb the notorious North Face of the Eiger, alone. The film also skillfully blends in expertly done reconstructions of the dramatic epics and tragic history of the Eiger North Face: the pioneering attempt by Sedlmeyer and Mehringer; the epic rescue of Tony Kurz; Harrer and Heckmair's first ascent. The climax of the film recreates John Harlin's 5,000 ft fall during the historic winter ascent of the Eiger Direct in 1966. Filming Eric Jones on his solo climb was almost as great a challenge to cameraman and filmmaker Leo Dickinson, who had to be lowered from a helicopter to Death Bivouac, high on the mountain to capture Eric's progress on film. This film also contains rare interviews with Heinrich Harrer, Anderl Heckmair, Don Whillans and Adolf Rubi. "Eiger Solo" is probably the best of its genre on the subject and thoroughly deserves to be! regarded as a masterpiece of a mountaineering film, it will thrill and inspire both serious climbers and armchair mountaineers alike.

This DVD is region free and can also be played outside the U.S. and Canada so long as your equipment can play NTSC - most of the recently made set top players in Europe can do that.

Be sure to view the trailer at adventure-eye.com!

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Eiger Solo, August 10, 2007

By	Richard J. Slezak - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This would of been a great video if it actually worked. There is good history and awesome camera work but DVD did not play through instead it would stop at every scene and leave the viewer in the scene menu requiring the viewer to physically click on next scene in order to continue watching the video.

I returned the DVD in exchange for another. The return and exchange transaction went smoothly and I got the new DVD in 2 days! Unfortunately the replacement DVD had the same issues. Maybe it was a bad batch but I didn't bother trying to get a third one.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars a great film dissed on disc, October 27, 2005

By	D. Swift (Jackson, WY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Eiger Solo is one of the great mountaineering films, beautifully written, filmed and finished.

This DVD, however, is a travesty: a washed-out picture, poor sound -- even the navigation controls don't work right.

Does Leo Dickinson know about this bum package?

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good climbing DVD on the subject, September 20, 2005

By	S. Jyrkynen (Finland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've got no complaints really. I got what I wanted, which was a proper documentary on Eiger North Face. Highly recommended!