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00:00:26,857 --> 00:00:29,TOURING BOOK
BY TONI KURZ

00:01:04,980 --> 00:01:08,When you're at the bottom,
Toni once told me

00:01:08,980 --> 00:01:10,at the foot of the wall...

00:01:11,100 --> 00:01:12,and you look up,

00:01:12,941 --> 00:01:15,you ask yourself:
How can anyone climb that?

00:01:16,701 --> 00:01:19,Why would anyone even want to?

00:01:19,901 --> 00:01:23,But hours later
when you're at the top...

00:01:23,581 --> 00:01:25,looking down,

00:01:25,902 --> 00:01:27,you've forgotten everything...

00:01:30,342 --> 00:01:32,Except the one person you promised...

00:01:32,582 --> 00:01:34,you would come back to.

00:01:39,683 --> 00:01:44,THE NORTH FACE

00:01:46,703 --> 00:01:49,Based on a true story

00:01:57,564 --> 00:02:00,The "Wall of Death" this perilous
Alpine face is often called.

00:02:01,244 --> 00:02:03,But German flying ace Ernst Udet...

00:02:03,844 --> 00:02:07,fearlessly comes within 20 meters
of its icy cliffs...

00:02:07,605 --> 00:02:10,in search of the missing
Munich climbers...

00:02:10,705 --> 00:02:13,Max Mehringer and Karl Sedlmayer.

00:02:14,705 --> 00:02:18,After forging into the middle of the face,
our brave troopers...

00:02:18,625 --> 00:02:20,died in their bivouacs.

00:02:20,906 --> 00:02:24,After the tragedy,
the canton of Berne decreed...

00:02:24,586 --> 00:02:27,that climbing the North Face
is strictly forbidden.

00:02:27,906 --> 00:02:32,But will this piece of paper
hold back German youth?

00:02:34,487 --> 00:02:38,With the Olympic Games approaching,
our proud youth senses...

00:02:38,807 --> 00:02:41,not only the peril but also the lure,

00:02:41,647 --> 00:02:43,this challenge of their skills.

00:02:44,007 --> 00:02:45,For one thing is certain:

00:02:45,487 --> 00:02:49,The first men to summit will be
celebrated as Olympic heroes.

00:02:50,588 --> 00:02:55,And so the battle cry echoes through Europe:
Attack the Eiger North Face!

00:02:55,868 --> 00:02:59,We must conquer the last problem of the Alps!

00:03:13,969 --> 00:03:16,BERLIN - MAY NEWSROOM AT THE BERLINER ZEITUNG

00:03:26,470 --> 00:03:31,We've contacted every Alpine club.
False alarm.

00:03:31,871 --> 00:03:34,Maybe it's just too early
in the season for...

00:03:35,391 --> 00:03:36,mountain climbing.

00:03:36,551 --> 00:03:39,Die-hard climbers die easier
than you think.

00:03:40,551 --> 00:03:42,Humans are foolhardy by nature.

00:03:42,431 --> 00:03:44,Do you know what this is?

00:03:44,392 --> 00:03:45,Not yet, boss.

00:03:45,592 --> 00:03:47,The Reich Press Secretary...

00:03:47,672 --> 00:03:49,instructs us to focus...

00:03:49,432 --> 00:03:52,on the first ascent of the Eiger.

00:03:52,272 --> 00:03:53,That's your jurisdiction.

00:03:54,072 --> 00:03:57,I want a German first ascent soon,
or you'll be...

00:03:57,393 --> 00:03:58,climbing it yourself.

00:04:00,133 --> 00:04:02,Henry,
what about that pair from Berchtesgaden?

00:04:03,693 --> 00:04:07,It was in the local paper.
Try to remember...

00:04:07,853 --> 00:04:10,Two men from the Mountain Brigade,
I think,

00:04:10,854 --> 00:04:14,and one of them is named...

00:04:14,414 --> 00:04:17,Hinterstoisser.
Yes, one is Hinterstoisser...

00:04:17,854 --> 00:04:19,and the other...

00:04:21,274 --> 00:04:23,- Henry?
- Kurz.

00:04:25,315 --> 00:04:26,What?

00:04:29,795 --> 00:04:31,What do you mean by "courts"?

00:04:31,595 --> 00:04:33,Andi Hinterstoisser and Toni Kurz.

00:04:34,555 --> 00:04:37,Mr. Henze meant them.
They'll scale anything tall.

00:04:37,516 --> 00:04:39,It's all they ever thought about as kids.

00:04:40,396 --> 00:04:42,Put one and one together.

00:04:42,276 --> 00:04:45,What have they dreamed about
since they were kids?

00:04:45,316 --> 00:04:48,Graduating from high school, Henze?

00:04:48,536 --> 00:04:49,Sorry, boss.

00:04:49,976 --> 00:04:55,About the Eiger, of course.
Climbing it first, Olympic gold, etc.

00:04:55,497 --> 00:04:58,How do you know about them?

00:04:58,917 --> 00:05:01,- Miss...?
- Fellner.

00:05:01,557 --> 00:05:05,I'm from Berchtesgaden too.
We practically grew up together.

00:05:05,398 --> 00:05:07,I know almost everything about them.

00:05:07,718 --> 00:05:08,Oh really?

00:05:11,218 --> 00:05:12,Everything?

00:05:27,639 --> 00:05:31,Around noon, after 27 hours of struggle,

00:05:31,359 --> 00:05:33,we summited and shook hands in silence.

00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:36,It was a hard,
life-renewing battle,

00:05:36,580 --> 00:05:39,for only one who has felt death so near...

00:05:39,540 --> 00:05:41,...will truly know that life is dear.

00:05:41,780 --> 00:05:44,Yes.
Your Private Kurz is a mountain poet.

00:05:44,500 --> 00:05:48,- That too?
- But they're also highly talented.

00:05:49,321 --> 00:05:52,Göll, Nordwand, Matterhorn,
Wartsteinkante...

00:05:52,361 --> 00:05:54,That was a first ascent.
A very difficult climb.

00:05:54,721 --> 00:05:57,Just this May.
Nobody thought it was possible.

00:05:58,461 --> 00:05:59,Well done!

00:05:59,541 --> 00:06:02,Why aren't they in Berne
attempting to climb the Eiger?

00:06:04,602 --> 00:06:05,I don't know.

00:06:06,642 --> 00:06:07,Oh, she doesn't know.

00:06:07,962 --> 00:06:09,Miss Fellner, come here.

00:06:11,682 --> 00:06:12,Here.

00:06:13,903 --> 00:06:16,This will get you 40 marks
for travel expenses.

00:06:16,783 --> 00:06:19,Then go to the stockroom
and have them give you a Retina.

00:06:20,063 --> 00:06:24,And then off you go to Berchtesgaden.

00:06:26,343 --> 00:06:28,Tell your old friends
that the German Reich,

00:06:28,664 --> 00:06:31,especially our editor-in-chief,
is counting on them.

00:06:34,504 --> 00:06:35,Pardon?

00:06:35,584 --> 00:06:39,Bring back a nice story, child. Go on!

00:06:42,545 --> 00:06:44,Do your Bavarian alpinists...

00:06:44,505 --> 00:06:47,look anything like German heroes?

00:06:48,205 --> 00:06:50,More German and heroic than either of us.

00:06:51,005 --> 00:06:54,BERCHTESGADEN - MOUNTAIN BRIGADE GARRISON

00:07:01,306 --> 00:07:02,Hinterstoisser! Kurz!

00:07:05,106 --> 00:07:07,Have we learned what curfew means?

00:07:08,227 --> 00:07:10,Or do you still think scaling mountains...

00:07:10,667 --> 00:07:12,excuses you from looking at your watches?

00:07:12,707 --> 00:07:15,Company Sergeant sir,
we don't own watches.

00:07:16,927 --> 00:07:20,In that case, Hinterstoisser,
I'll tell you...

00:07:20,607 --> 00:07:22,how long it is until quitting time.

00:07:23,288 --> 00:07:26,Exactly four urinals in the staff building,

00:07:26,288 --> 00:07:28,two company latrines in barrack V, and...

00:07:29,228 --> 00:07:30,one floor in the officer's casino.

00:07:31,508 --> 00:07:32,Carry on!

00:07:40,389 --> 00:07:42,Company Sergeant sir,
we don't own watches.

00:07:44,089 --> 00:07:45,Good job!

00:07:48,169 --> 00:07:49,Heil Hitler.

00:07:49,249 --> 00:07:50,Bye.

00:09:12,756 --> 00:09:13,Rope!

00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:21,We'll never make it this way.

00:10:21,361 --> 00:10:23,Let's traverse from below.

00:10:24,241 --> 00:10:26,C'mon, never say never.

00:11:23,485 --> 00:11:24,Everything OK?

00:11:25,765 --> 00:11:27,Yeah.

00:11:27,365 --> 00:11:29,Hinterstoisser, you heavy b***d.

00:11:29,566 --> 00:11:31,You need to do more push-ups, Kurz.

00:11:43,467 --> 00:11:44,But it was a good idea.

00:11:45,307 --> 00:11:47,Maybe it still needs a little work.

00:11:49,367 --> 00:11:51,You need to work on hammering in pitons.

00:12:04,548 --> 00:12:06,- Berg Heil, partner, we made it.
- Berg Heil.

00:12:08,388 --> 00:12:11,Here's to the new Hinterstoisser-Kurz route!

00:12:40,151 --> 00:12:42,Angerer and Rainer are going for it.

00:12:43,551 --> 00:12:44,What?

00:12:44,711 --> 00:12:47,You know what I'm talking about.

00:12:47,991 --> 00:12:49,They're climbing the Eiger.

00:12:51,312 --> 00:12:52,Whatever.

00:12:52,992 --> 00:12:56,C'mon Toni,
we can beat those two left-handed.

00:12:56,552 --> 00:12:58,I know you,
you want to do the Eiger too.

00:13:03,082 --> 00:13:05,Or why did we scale the south face
of the Untersberg?

00:13:07,603 --> 00:13:10,- In the newspaper you yourself wrote...
- I know what I wrote.

00:13:14,063 --> 00:13:15,Scared, huh?

00:13:15,463 --> 00:13:17,I'm not scared of anything.

00:13:43,345 --> 00:13:46,Hi, Mrs. Kurz,
I'm bringing your Toni back home.

00:13:46,426 --> 00:13:48,Glad you g***t back safely.

00:13:49,066 --> 00:13:50,We've g***t a visitor.

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