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- I am a man who loves to embrace life, it was in me, I was free, and I always wanted to keep this alive - Even though I paid dearly for it.
- Mount Triglav has a special place in Slovenian national identity. The film is a tale of this mythological mountain, and the race between Slovenian and foreign mountaineers for the championship of the prestigious North Triglav Wall.
- A journey through the timeless Hades as seen by Dvorak - and as seen today when the idea of a united Europe is slowly crumbling, fading.
- An bitter-sweet arabesque melodrama with an existentialist tone, with a touch of black humor.
- The Legendary Cornelians The first winter ascents on the Slovene mountains were performed in 1907 by Rudolf Badjura and Bogumil Brinsek. Three years later, they were joined by Pavel Kunaver, Ivan Tavcar and Ivan Michler. They chose the name for their society, Dren (Cornel) after the tree Cornus mas which has an extremely dense, but at the same time flexible type of wood. Cornelians popularised mountain hiking and mountaineering; they were the fathers of skiing in Slovenia; they marked trails and became pioneers of artistic mountain photography. In the summer of 1911 they were the first to climb the northern Triglav wall without a guide. This route is now called the Slovene Route. The next winter, they undertook the first ever winter ascent to Slovenia's highest peak, Triglav. In February 1910, the Carniolan State Governor Baron Theodor Schwarz von Karsten established a society for cave exploration, but all the board members were elderly gentlemen who had never seen an underground cave from the inside. Embarrassed, they turned for help to the Cornel Society Secretary, Bogumil Brinsek, and other Cornelians - and the legend was born! Cornelians were with their modern - now we would call it a 'sporting' - approach to cave exploration, a true world avant-garde. They were first to incorporate mountaineering techniques in caves; they tackled deep gorges and vertical walls, and set a series of records and milestones which were not surpassed until one hundred years later. They were ahead of their time through the use of their scientific methodology - they diligently mapped the caves and were systematically profiling them in a cave cadastre. Between 1910 and 1917, the Cornelians explored more than 400 caves, made more than 350 sketches, blueprints and cadastre descriptions, and compiled an extensive journal and photo archive. In 1917, Kunaver and Michler explored and mapped 101 caves in an area measuring 90 square kilometres of the Trnovo Forest-Banjsice Plateau, on the frontline of the Eleventh Battle of Isonzo. This unimaginable feat remains unsurpassed even today. The story of the Cornelians ended after World War One with the Treaty of Rapallo. The lives of these young people tell us the story about the beginning and birth of the Slovene sporting intellectual elite, about Slovene vitality, exploration zeal and national pride.
- The first underground photograph was made by the French man Louis Boutan back in 1893 on a plate. His camera weighed at least 200 kilos. It was locked in a copper barrel. The plates were made especially for him by the Lumière brothers. It took another four decades, before the German Hans Haas constructed the first closed housing system in 1937, and made a series of good underwater photographs in the Adriatic Sea. The same summer, a small group of Slovene natural science students, who called themselves Racani, dived beneath the sea without a helmet. They replaced it with an ingenious home-made diving gear. They took their first underwater photographs with their simple home-made "bell". With this, Slovenes equalled the achievements of the Germans and became the first underwater photographers. Not only that, we became the pioneers of exploratory and scientific underwater photography, as the first scientifically analysed and catalogued collection of plant and animal photographs made the very same year proves. These pioneers were Ivan Kuscer, Dusan Kuscer, Marko Zalokar and Drago Leskovsek. Racani wrote in their diary: Each of us dived into the bay at Raca that day. The blueness of the sea, the fish, algae and the sea urchins were exciting enough. It is a special feeling to hover in the "blue". You're by yourself, hanging by a thick rope and surrounded by a blue emptiness. You lose your sense of distance, the bottom is infinitely deep. That was our dream. Freed from the laws of gravity, I floated in a three-dimensional space. Thanks to my new "lungs", I could make carefree moves, levitated in emptiness, ascended and descended... I vaguely felt that I was cheating nature. But it seemed impossible to be punished for such a beautiful sin. This spot under the Velebit range was our home for seven summers. Here we made our first steps into the wonderful, undersea world. Raca was the site of numerous fantastic experiences, our promised land, where we forgot all the perks of city life. It was a school where we learned about nature and ourselves. We wish everyone to have such great times as we had here. What drove those young men, who had just recently come of age, to set out in 1937 on foot to the coast, and became part of the history of the undersea studies and also pioneers of exploratory underwater photography? A hidden story about human passion and an unending yearning to discover the unknown - a story about an astonishing beauty and the aesthetics of the mysterious.
- In the Ama Dablam mountain in Népal, the alpinists Vanji Furlan and Tomaz Humar try to break through the northwestern wall to the very top. Zvonko Pozgaj monitored events from the base camp, guided them through radio.