The true story of Wanda Rutkiewicz, the first woman in the world to climb the highest peaks on earth. Wanda entered the ‘male’ world of high-mountains uninvited, and paid the highest price for it.
The film’s director, herself a climber, set off to the Himalayas in search of Wanda. The clue to the expedition is the protagonist’s mysterious audio-diary found among a pile of archival materials. Wanda says: “I know perfectly well that there’s no way back for me”.
Wanda disappeared 30 years ago. Her body was never found. The film explores her life and mystery with the participation of famous climbers Reinhold Messner, Krzysztof Wielicki and Carlos Carsolio.
ELIZA KUBARSKA is a director, alpinist and traveller. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and Wajda Film School. Since 2004 she has directed awarded world-wide documentary films, often produced in extreme locations: WHAT HAPPENED ON PAM ISLAND (2010), shot on Greenland, WALKING UNDER WATER (2014), filmed on the seas around Borneo and underwater, (Hot Docs Jury Prize and Special Mentions at Los Angeles IFF and Palm Springs IFF), K2.TOUCHING THE SKY (2015), filmed in Karakorum and one of the most awarded Polish mountain films in history and the multi awarded THE WALL OF SHADOWS (2020). Since 2008 she is a director of Vertical Vision Film studio.
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