DARK GLOW OF THE MOUNTAINS

Impossible expeditions are nothing new to arthouse cinema titan Werner Herzog (NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE), and his 1985 documentary THE DARK GLOW OF THE MOUNTAINS stands near the top of his list of incredible feats. Mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner are accompanied by the director as they climb to the peaks of the Gasherbrum mountains, reflecting on their prior accomplishments and how the activity they love may very well kill them someday. Capturing both the jaw-dropping beauty of their surroundings and the intimate conversations had by men living on the edge of experience, THE DARK GLOW OF THE MOUNTAINS is another essential snapshot of the human condition from cinema’s most daring explorer.