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- With hundreds of pounds on their backs, they face storms, blizzards and deep snow. Their job is not only a job, but also their path to calm. We get to know the oldest generation of carriers of the High Tatras, who climb the huts every day.
- For Slovak Himalayan mountaineering, the 80s were a golden age. Cruel Everest documents their frustrated dream of climbing the mountain's most challenging face.
- The adventurer, Ivan Bulík, traveled all through Africa. However, one of his dreams still eluded him: He desired to capture the life and customs of the smallest people on Earth, to find the undisturbed civilization of Pygmies.
- Is it possible to climb the hardest route on Mount Everest in Alpine style? Sir Chris Bonington, the most famous British climber, named this route The Hard Way and stated it is impossible. It became a challenge for four Slovak climbers. In 1988 they started their hardest way with no escape.
- Up there, above the clouds, one can feel a mysterious alliance with the universe.
- Feared, cursed and also admired, the same as its founder, in his life never defeated, the chieftain Genghis Khan. Mongolia, a magic country, searching for its present face in the heritage of the 13th century.
- Only the best of the best can abseil into its depths of Trou de Fer, but even that doesn't guarantee they will ever manage to return. That's up to nature to decide.
- It's said that Bhutan was forgotten by people but never by the Gods. The natives call this ancient mountain kingdom, crowded between Indian Assam and Chinese Tibet, the land of the Thunder Dragon. Wandering through a forgotten country in which people worship all living things is a story of happiness. Internal peace is valued here more than a craving for worldly pleasures, and harmony with nature is the supreme principle. A good king cares for the wealth of his people. Instead of Gross Domestic Product, he promotes Gross National Happiness. It's like a fairytale world. In its fragile perception of happiness, this small Himalayan kingdom has chosen to follow a strange path. Maybe, its the correct one.
- A film documentary about discovering the secrets of the world's largest quartzite cave.
- An authentic story of four Slovak and Russian polar explorers who tried to cross the Arctic Ocean from Russia to Canada through the North Pole, thus fulfilling the last remaining, almost impossible dream of Arctic explorers.
- The past of the human race lies in African history.
- In the era of satellites, this country of mysteries, myths and undiscovered secrets hides behind green walls of impenetrable deep forest.
- Gálfy left remarkable traces behind, wherever he went: atop world-class peaks, and in the hearts and minds of many people. As a founding member of the Slovak Mountain Rescue Service , Gálfy brought the organisation up to European standards.
- Snowy Mountains rise high above the untouched jungle of New Guinea, breaking through heavy rain clouds. A limestone pyramid, known as the Carstensz Pyramid, soars above them as the most exotic, but also the most inaccessible mountain in the world. The peak of this mountain was conquered for the first time, by Heinrich Harrer, in 1962. Access to the foothills of this mountain lead through the territory of the legendary Damal native tribes and still belongs amongst the most adventurous expeditions. Apart from obtaining the necessary permits, the biggest problem lies is in persuading the naked natives to help us with the transport of equipment from Beoga, across wild rivers and mountainous jungle, up to the snowy glaciers below the Carstensz Pyramid.
- His name evoked respect. Human as well as professional. At home as well as abroad. Jozef Psotka, nicknamed "Juzek", or "mountain worker". One of the most notable figures of Slovak mountaineering. A man who conquered the summit of Mount Everest. Now we have the chance to recall his noteworthy life, which was a great story of conquering the world's highest summits.
- Auyan Tepui... The highest table mountain in the Amazon... Indians believe that demons live on the top of it...Becko Ondrejovic managed the first complete traverse.
- The first day is calm. Deceitful sun shines continuously, day and night. Frightening silence in one's ears. It flows in from everywhere; it literally hurts. And the awful cold. It hurts too. Real and imaginable. Wherever you look there is just an endless white desert. Snow and sky. Nothing else. Just two colors: white and blue. And mainly the absolute purity. In your head, under your feet and everywhere around. A non-sharable experience. Twenty four million square kilometres of ice and them. Alone, somewhere in the middle of the world's coldest continent. They decided to walk on foot from the edge of the Antarctic continent as far as its highest point.