Stipe Božić

Documentary film about the sports life of Croatian swimming icon Veljko Rogošić.

On May 9, 1956, for the first time, the man stepped on the 8163-meter-high Manaslu, the eighth highest mountain in the world. In the fifty years of a long series of tragedies and triumphs in the mountain, two Slovenians were among the featured protagonists. On April 24, 1983, two climbers from Yugoslavia, trying to climb Manaslu from the south face, were buried under an avalanche. One of them was Nejc Zaplotnik, one of the most notable Slovenian climbers.

This is a story about the successes of Slovenian, and, to a lesser extent, Croatian mountaineering, led by Stipe Božić, across the frozen, steepest, and most dangerous Himalayan cliffs in the world. The successes of the climbers are conveyed by important authorities in world alpinism, including New Zealander Edmund Hillary, the legendary Himalayan chronicler Elizabeth Hawley, world-renowned Italian alpinist Reinhold Messner, and British actor Brian Blessed. According to the book Alpine Warriors by Canadian writer Bernadette McDonald, the testimonies of the surviving participants are accompanied by authentic documentary film footage from the highest peaks in the world, filmed by Stipe Božić over a span of 50 years.

This is a story about the successes of Slovenian, and, to a lesser extent, Croatian mountaineering, led by Stipe Božić, across the frozen, steepest, and most dangerous Himalayan cliffs in the world. The successes of the climbers are conveyed by important authorities in world alpinism, including New Zealander Edmund Hillary, the legendary Himalayan chronicler Elizabeth Hawley, world-renowned Italian alpinist Reinhold Messner, and British actor Brian Blessed. According to the book Alpine Warriors by Canadian writer Bernadette McDonald, the testimonies of the surviving participants are accompanied by authentic documentary film footage from the highest peaks in the world, filmed by Stipe Božić over a span of 50 years.