Kurt Diemberger, the video interviews

Here they are, our video interviews with all-time great Kurt Diemberger, the highly talented Austrian mountaineer who can look back not only on two extraordinary first ascents of the 8000 metre giants - Broad Peak in the Karakoram in 1957 and Dhaulagiri in the Himalaya in 1960 - but also on an experience and exploration of those high altitudes that has few comparisons. It is for this reason that Diemberger will receive the 5th Walter Bonatti Lifetime Achievement Award during the 21st Piolets d’Or which will take place in Courmayeur and Chamonix from 3 - 6 April. On two occasions the Planetmountain editors had the honour of interviewing Diemberger; unique moments, memorable, recounted by the great narrator and captured by Vinicio Stefanello and Francesco Mansutti.


Kurt Diemberger - 50 years after the first ascent of Dhaulagiri
Video interview by Vinicio Stefanello (planetmountain.com) and Francesco Mansutti (Studio Due) for the Trento Film Festival 2010




Kurt Diemberger - Dacing on the rope
Video interview by Vinicio Stefanello (planetmountain.com) and Francesco Mansutti (Studio Due) for the Trento Film Festival 2009