Im Schatten des Karakorum 1955

In 1954, a German-Austrian expedition led by Mathias Rebitsch set off for the difficult-to-access Karakoram Mountains, geographically north of the Himalayas. They come across the Hunza, a people who live in the valley of the same name and believe they are descended from the soldiers of Alexander the Great. The documentary conveys impressions of the poor life of the Hunza people, the harvest, a court hearing, festivals and the children's everyday school life. Finally, the expedition sets off again and sets up its main camp on the moraine ridge of a glacier, where they measure the glacier and the earth's magnetic field. Finally, some men from the research community set off for a sub-peak of Batura.

Cast:

Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Self - Narrator [West Germany & Austria] (voice) 

Otto Mellies
Self - Narrator [East Germany] (voice) 

Mathias Rebitsch
Self - Expedition Leader 

Wolfgang Pillewizer
Self - Scientific Director 

Paul Bernett
Self - Expedition Doctor 

Anderl Heckmair
Self - Expedition Member 

• Im Schatten des Karakorum – Durch das wilde Land der Hunza auf die Gipfel der Batura
• In the Shadow of Karakorum
• Karakorumin varjossa