The courage to climb in high altitudes allows an approach to the topic of pride. In the focus of this documentary are two men who report on self-estimation and imprudence in the mountains. For the extreme mountaineer Hans Kammerlander, the calculated risk is part of his daily discipline.
The other man, the hobby mountaineer Thomas Milnik, has risked his life several times by pushing his limits quite deliberately. The film follows a strange story when he was stuck five icy days and nights on a small rock outcrop on Germany’s highest mountain and his sayings that he didn’t really want to be rescued.
Nowhere else does the “mortal sin of pride” lead so directly to a fall as it does in mountaineering.