Director

STIPE BOZIC was born in 1951 in Croatia. He is one the most versatile mountain cameramen. He has taken his camera up the three highest peaks in the world, and down to explore the underwater world and the depths of the earth. Stipe is also a competent climber and has taken part in at least 11 expeditions as cameraman: he has climbed Everest twice, K2, Kangchenjunga and Manaslu. Stipe has worked on various television productions and is currently a director for HRT, Croatian television, for which he has made more than 40 documentaries. His film, Reticent Wall, has won many awards in various Festivals. Dhaulagiri Express, his most recent work, was entered in the Graz, Poprad, Trento, Banff and Kendal Festivals.

This is the story of eleven days of hard and dangerous solo climbing up the south face of Dhaulagiri, in the Nepalese Himalayas.

Humar, one of the world's top contemporary climbers, has pushed the limits of human ability.

He scaled in solo a Himalayan wall of almost 4,000 metres considered to be one of the most dangerous in the world.

Landslides, falling rocks, wind and lack of oxygen are now behind him.

The film director accompanies him with the camera until the first obstacles.

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