K1 | Climbing one of the hardest mountains in the WORLD
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2023
- Masherbrum, although once called K1, is not the highest. It is hailed by locals as the Queen of the Mountains, perhaps because it is so inaccessible. While the world's highest summit of Mt. Everest has been reached countless times, only four expeditions have ever climbed the extremely dangerous peak of Masherbrum, the last in 1985.
37 years later, a Czech expedition is attempting to conquer one of the most impressive mountains on the planet. Radoslav Groh, Marek Holecek and Tomas Petrecek want to climb a new alpine-style route on its west face. Will they succeed in captivating the Queen? "Now the answer lies upon us, also in the stars, and who knows, perhaps a blessing must come from the royal court.
The ball has begun, where we shall try to cheer, dance and soften the Queen. At the same time, we beg for indulgence that we intend to intrude into her presence, when our steps will be clumsy, lacking in elegance, ignorant of good manners or the ethics of the royal court. But a heart full of apprehension, also full of passion and determination to seek her favor. Keep your fingers crossed, there we go..." Marek Holecek, 7. 8. 2022, Karakoram
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Tomas Galasek (*1978) is a Czech director and cinematographer. He graduated from the Film School Zlín and the Lansing School District in Michigan, USA. His work focuses mainly on documentary films from the field of outdoor and adrenaline sports. He is a co-founder of the audiovisual production group Alternative.NOW, which has already produced several successful projects, including the internationally awarded freeride documentary White Line and a feature-length documentary about three extreme sportsmen called The Elements.
FILMOGRAPHY: Heavenly Trap (2021), Boys 1970 (2020), Naked Mountain (2019), The Elements (2016), Few Days (2014), Without the Sea (2013), White Line (2012), Knocking on Heaven's Door (2008) - กีฬา
"you'll never know how tough you are until you try something so hard that you fail"
Bravo, thank you for sharing.
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Thanks for making this film. Masherbrum, at 22nd highest in the world is one of "the second 14". As the first 14 become more and more of a circus of guided parties each year, my armchair mountaineering interest is redirected to what's being done by serious mountaineers on peaks such as this one. Your film brings me along for an impressive ride.
K1 is the real deal only 3 sumits ever recorded with the last in 1987!! Meanwhile k2 has had a day where 90 people summited in 1 day. Most likely drug up the mountain by their sherpas
Any recommendations of other peaks like this done by serious or pro mountaineers.
@@thelasthourgetready Cerro Torre in Argentina is probably unanimously considered top 3 in difficulty aswell.
Matt Cornell, Jackson Marvell and Alan Rousseau's 2023 ascent of "The Wall of Shadows" on Jannu is about as impressive as it gets.A route like that won't ever see guided parties on it who need help putting on their crampons, which is more than can be said for most of the 8000ers.
North face, Devil's Thumb Alaska!
That was just marvellous. Doubly engaging to hear these mountaineers talking in their own language. Just wonderful. So brave. So skilful. Bravo!
Thank you for this wonderful documentary. Really enjoyed it.
With so much press coverage on K2 and Everest, and with increasing numbers of climbers on both of those two mountains each year, it is refreshing to see a production like this on an extremely difficult and incredibly challenging mountain, that very, very few people on the planet have the skill and fortitude to attempt to climb.
Bravo to the climbers and the film production team!!
thanks a lot 🧡
Yes, thanks for this! A really remarkable effort by the climbers and also one of the best short climbing documentaries I’ve ever seen. Lastly, nice to see a representative example of the reality of a lot, if not the majority, of such climbs. Most such videos feature only the summit successes and, in my opinion, give a skewed perspective of the activity, especially to non climbers. These guys made a great success: they gave it their best effort, recognized it, and came home alive😊
glad you enjoyed it - many thanks for the good words 🙏
It's the friends you make along the way! Great effort and everybody got back safe so good call to not push any further. Thank you for the film!
The view near the end when you named K2 and Broadpeak and so on reslly helped give perspective of how all these mountains sit together. Lovely video. Well do to everyone. That sugar powder snow looked well scary at the end.
Beautiful video, thanks for sharing. Masherbrum is the most beautiful, imposing mountain I've ever seen, much more complex and dangerous than K2, and with the summit horn constantly blowing a plume of snow while the face catches beautiful light...I couldn't stop photographing it.
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Bravo Gentlemen - what an incredible awe-inspiring climb!! Thats undoubtedly the best climbing film i've seen in a long long time. Absolutely masterful film-making and the amazing climbing which made it possible. Wishing your team successful summits in future. Hope to see some more of your exploits soon. Na Zdravi
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is very unique. Very few videos of climbing Masherbrum. The almost forgotten K peak being in the shadow of K2 and the 8m peaks. These guys were tough. Gave it everything they had. Showed just how extremely difficult it is to climb. Excellent video
Now this is alpine climbing at its finest
Great film, thanks for posting. What's with the funky colours and flat lighting though, is it meant to look like this or did something go wrong in the upload?
Came to ask the same question
AGREE! We get its treacherous... But this filter is WAY too dark...
I guess we don't get a response!
About the only thing wrong with this short film, otherwise it was great.
I've noticed the same thing on my devices it looks like seeing through a ND filter. Colors are looking dull. Some sequences are also affected by horizontal lines. Definitely a video editing problem.
One word..Amazing 😊
Thank you! 🙏🏼
Thanks, so many thanks for sharing your adventure guys. Maximum respect and support for your future climbs.
The shot @6:50 is incredible. My goodness.
Great succes guys, you did a lot of work and came back home alive. For us, it would be great succes if we reach the base camp.
Solid and Noble Effort! 🙏🏾💪🏾🕉
Beautiful film and wonderful images !
Many thanks!
Awesome video!
Thanks for a great film. Cutting edge world class alpinism done in great style. To attempt a first ascent on this massive peak with no fixed lines , no camps, no oxygen , wow ! Hope you get another crack at it when conditions are improved !
Many thanks!
So fantastic to see a film that celebrates the attempt! Also a beautifully shot film.
I'm not a climber, but this is a magnificent film. It's also a fine reason for not taking up climbing in my book, if it's to involve such crevassed ice, cracked seracs and foothold-free snow over jagged rocks! Enjoy, y'all; I'll enjoy the landscape from the foothills.
Amazing and awe inspiring. Some really sketchy sections on that mountain 😅. Even though they didnt summit is was still a success. The honesty and truth was encouraging. Mammut always produces excellence and class! This is now my favourite mountain doc alongside Anapurna the hard way.
thank you so much for the good words! 🙏🏼 much appreciated!
Incredible film. These guys are warriors
thank you! 🔥
What an absolutely incredible peak. This mountain is a BEAST.
Great success, I am really great, that the Czech guys have managed to come back! Danke für die interessante Doku!
thank you for the nice words, it is truly an inspiring expedition we're really happy to share it with you 🙏
This was incredible. Thanks for putting this out there. This is a serious mountain that I've never even heard of anyone attempting to climb. Anyone know if these guys climb without porters? Despite the excellent cinematography and clarity, the colors in this seem a bit washed out. Respect to the climbers and camera crew.
It´s a stunning documentary film of the K1 ascent made so naturally with a indisputable vibrations💪 ....well done as for the camera, climbers´ comments, experience, background sounds and a whole flow and concept of the film🙂...and mainly you have performed and reached an altitude as much as possible taking into account a relatively safe descent back to lowlands with open possibilities to try other ascents in the future 🗻! Great performance and this is where we can really use a wise saying of some very advanced climbers who scaled or tried to scale similar or higher peaks that says: the major goal is to return, not to reach a summit !👌👌
So fun and interesting to watch. Wish I could do all this. Greetings from Norway 🇳🇴
Super dokument 😊
did fellaz forget to grade the baltoro footage? looks like fucking slog
wonderful images. well done!
thank you so much! 🙏🏼
no words
Who did the color grading on this? Why does it look like its filmed somewhere on Mars with a constantly dusty atmosphere? For me this unfortunately really took away from the viewing experience and ruined these otherwise gorgeous shoots.
Brilliant stuff
thank you!
Great effort ❤
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Whoever was responsible for the sound, pat yourself on the back! 👏
to feel the pain and telling yourself not to go on Hurts but it probably has saved the Life of the Two Climbers:
Interesting content and great effort but please reupload with color correction!
Amazing amazing climbing congratulations , the only thing is the color grade of this video could be better
absolutely breathtaking. thank you. and not trolling here just a honest wish: please use a little less colour grading next time. makes the awesomeness feel a pinch too artificial. but that's probably jsut my useless 10 cent.
Excellent video, but it's waaay to dark. Something were not right during editing/export with the brightness of the output.
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@28:52, the serac looks just like the face of a soldier in WW2 with a metal helmet on. That just me that see's that?
oh wow
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Why there’s a brownish haze layer on this film? That’s really heart breaking, because it doesn’t convey the true essence of nature and the terrain! It made it difficult to watch and I had to skip major sections because of it! Too bad!!!!
A little less filter would have been nice
No Mountain is like K1
Yall insane
Why is the title , details and the comments for this video not written in whatever language is spoken in the video? Makes no sense to me ?
Would have watched with english commentary
Our local movie theater has one screen that is so dark (the projector somehow has a defect, I guess) that I refuse to watch movies on it. I just go ask for a refund if the film I came to see is in theater 3. This movie is like that, waaaaay too dark. Why? Who knows. But it's not good. Too bad, it's otherwise an interesting trip account on a monster peak.
Thank god Mammut is a swiss company.....not even tried to translate it in english or german. So no one that is not speaking Czech does not understand a thing...pretty sad
Great Documentary. Cinematography is good, but the color editing is unfortunately awful imo. The snow, The sky, The landscapes in those regions are so beautiful and pure. this color editing kinda ruins the pure and natural visual beauty.
K1 is such an underrated mountain.
Nothing beats K2 for me, but this mountain is also majestic and beautiful too.
K1 is much harder.
The video is way too dark, I don't understand who decided to make that choice with his video editor, but it was the wrong choice.
for David Lama, Jess Roskelley and Hansjörg Auer !! ❤💔
If K1 is so good how come there isnt a K2? ... oh wait
suprovej dokument. za 1. Ale ten filtr šedohnědý či co to je, hroznej......
K 1 ?
Yes where is K3
Ohio
Fuuu,podivana!Oproti vasim “výletom” sa zda skoro vsetko ine ako prechadzka v parku:-).Drzim palce pri druhom pokuse.
@mammut, Why did you delete my comments regarding the awful choppy editing @3:45, and the unwatchability of this due to the terrible grading? Can't take negative feedback?
そうそう
K1も、あるんだよ‼️
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Why the awful filter?
why is it so dark I can barely see anything... maybe employ some color artists T_T this looks like it hasn't been graded at all. What a waste of beautiful footage. :(
One of the worst climbing documentaries i have seen in a while. No story just frantic micro edit after micro edit.
Sorry, not going to listen to non-English content and I refuse to use CC. YT should not recommend this content. Instead it should recommend content I like, which it actively suppresses because it's of the "wrong" political persuasion. This is what an authoritarian entity looks like.
How do you feel? Are you happy? What is your biggest succes in your life? Tell us something about you, you must be so interesting person :)
BYE, FELICIA!
I understood not a single word spoken apart from names from that area of the Karakoram. It didn't matter a jot, that's one of the most visually compelling mountaineering films I've seen. Sublime cinematography!
you sound miserable
You don't have to watch YT recommendations if you don't want to but how do you know what you might be missing with such dogmatic opinions?