Cerro Torre

Sie wollen ihn nicht verstehen…

Thomas Ulrich, Christoph Frutiger, Christine Kopp

They don’t want to understand it...

A winter attempt on the Maestri-Egger route

We travel to Patagonia with four Swiss mountaineers. Thomas Ulrich, one of the four and worldwide known adventure and outdoor photographer, tells us the tale of this journey.

It’s winter and the four accomplished mountaineers want to climb one of the most famous routes: the so called “Maestri-Egger” on Cerro Torre. 1959, Cesare Maestri and Toni Egger did the first ascent of this beautiful ice and granit needle via the east and north faces. Egger died on the descent in an avalanche. Although many climbers tried to do it, the route hasn’t been repeated since then.

Our protagonists – David Fasel, Michal Pitelka, Stephan Siegrist and Thomas Ulrich – have a lot of experience in Patagonian climbing in winter and summer. But this time, the mountain turns them back. That doesn’t mean they don’t have a lot of fun. This film is a homage to friendship, happiness, the beauty of nature – and to the performances of alpinists such as Casimiro Ferrari (a famous Italian pioneer they encounter on their way), Cesare Maestri and Cesarino Fava.

Thomas Ulrich

Thomas Ulrich was born on 16 November 1967 in Interlaken, Bernese Oberland, where he lives with his family. Besides his professional formation to become a carpenter and a mountain guide, Thomas starts early with extreme climbing. In 1988, Thomas travels for the first time to Patagonia; in the meantime, he has added four more expeditions to this place. With three friends he climbed Cerro Torre in 1999 via the west face; it was the first winter ascent of this route and the story was published on National Geographic magazine in March 2000. Right now, he is traversing the Hielo Continental Sur (Patagonia) with the Norwegian adventurer Boerge Ousland for National Geographic. Thomas started his career to become one of the world famous adventure photographer as an autodidact. His pictures are published on magazines such as Animan, Life, Sports Illustrated and he works for several commercial clients in the outdoor market. Besides that, Thomas has begun to work as a cameraman and filmmaker, partly for TV stations. His first short film on a bigwall climb in California won a prize at the filmfestival of Trento and entered the finales of Banff Mountainfilm Festival.

2002 CERRO TORRE - SIE WOLLTEN IHN NICHT VERSTEHEN...
2000 MESCALITO

Christoph Frutiger

Christoph Frutiger was born on 9 April 1965 in Interlaken in the Bernese Oberland where he lives with his wife and the two daughters. After having become a teacher, he underwent further training to qualify as a cameraman in New York. Thereafter he worked as an assistant cameraman in New York, in the Bavaria Studios of Munich and in Switzerland. After that he began his work as a freelance cameraman. Amongst other things, Christoph Frutiger works for television channels in Switzerland and other countries. As second unit he has been involved in two Bond films and "Band of Brothers" by Steven Spielberg. In addition, he produces commercials and documentary films. In the past few years he has contributed to several large screen productions for the Mystery Park at Interlaken.

2008 DIE GEIGE
2008 LIGHTNING STRIKE
2004 ADRIAN FRUTIGER - DER MANN VON SCHWARZ UND WEISS
2002 CERRO TORRE - SIE WOLLTEN IHN NICHT VERSTEHEN...

Christine Kopp

Christine Kopp was born in Berne on 15 January 1967 and lives in Lecco in Northern Italy. After qualifying as a translator she in 1991 began her career as a freelance translator, journalist and editor. She has specialized in mountaineering and tourism issues and so far translated nine books from Italian and French. Since 1994 she has been the editor responsible for the pages about mountaineering of the well-known Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

2008 LIGHTNING STRIKE
2004 ADRIAN FRUTIGER - DER MANN VON SCHWARZ UND WEISS
2002 CERRO TORRE - SIE WOLLTEN IHN NICHT VERSTEHEN...

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