Excelsior

Story

Synopsis

Record of the international expedition to climb Kangchenjunga in 1930. The German-Austrian-British expedition, led by Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth, had come from the Nepalese side and tried to reach the North Ridge via its NW face after failing in the north face, where the sherpa Chettan was killed in an avalanche. The attempt failed but the team made the first ascents of Rathong (6678m) and Jongsong Peak (7483m), and also climbed the Southwest peak of Nepal Peak.

Director

Günther Oskar Dyhrenfurth

Writers

Günther Oskar Dyhrenfurth

Language

German

Country

Germany

Release date

10 March 1931

Ensemble

Cast

• Günther Oskar Dyhrenfurth

  Self - Expedition leader & lecturer, Germany (as Professor Dr. Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth)

• Hettie Dyrenfurth

  Self - Expedition participant, Germany

• Hermann Hoerlin

  Self - Expedition participant, Germany

• Helmuth Richer

  Self - Expedition participant, Germany (as Dr. Helmuth Richer)

• Ulrich Wieland

  Self - Expedition participant, Germany

• John Hannah

  Self - Expedition participant: England

• George Wood Johnson

  Self - Expedition participant: England

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  Frank Smythe

  Self - Expedition participant: England

• Erwin Schneider

  Self - Expedition participant: Austria

• Charles-Georges Duvanel

  Self - Expedition participant: Switzerland

• Marcel Kurz

  Self - Expedition participant: Switzerland

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  Lowell Thomas

  Narrator (USA)