Skip to playerSkip to main content
  • 1 week ago
This multiple-award winning documentary chronicles the life of acclaimed mountaineer Ruedi Beglinger. Living with his wife and two young daughters on a remote glacier in the vast mountains of British Columbia, Beglinger has built a reputation as one of the top ski mountaineering guides in the world. The film follows his family’s unique life off the grid and their journey in the years following a devastating avalanche that killed seven people. Documenting the sublime beauty and ever-present risk of a life lived on the edge, the film ultimately explores the power of nature as both an unforgiving host and profound teacher.
Transcript
00:19This will be the first time you realize fear.
00:24Eventually it will be quiet, it will be dark, and you're in the snow.
00:31I was born for the mountains. I can go away from the mountains, but just for so long.
00:38Then I have to be back.
00:40Rudy is a guide's guide. Successful. Almost a bit of a cult following.
00:47Physically strong, demanding of his guests and everyone around him.
00:51The guy had, you know, half his foot cut off at one point.
00:54It was going to be amputated and he insisted that it be sewed back on.
00:58I didn't want to sleep in a tent all my life.
01:02I looked at all the maps and I found this spot in June of 1985.
01:08I built a chalet to be able to live in the mountains with my family.
01:13My kids, they know how beautiful mountains are.
01:16They also know how dangerous they are.
01:20Things can go wrong.
01:22Regardless of how much you know, you cannot make the mountain safe.
01:26When you marry a guide, you live with the fact that he might not come back one day.
01:31In the Canadian Rockies, the winter danger includes avalanchers.
01:35I remember thinking to myself, okay, I'm near the surface and they're going to find me.
01:40And I sort of blacked out.
01:42I turned into my absolute biggest enemy you can ever, ever imagine.
01:49You know, you question yourself, wow.
01:53You know, maybe guiding is not for me.
01:59I believe that mountains have energy in them, which gets passed on to us as we travel in it.
02:05I believe mountains are fully alive.
02:15All I love is my family and the mountains.
02:24You start walking up and one step after the next and your mind starts thinking about the most amazing thing.
02:42It's my church, mountains.
02:47This is what they believe in.
02:51Playing in my country and the mountains.
02:53This is where I am.
02:53I am restec on Christmas at CHAP.
02:55It is aгоação ini.
02:58You know, say can you see one small tomato.
02:58And through that, you may see more of the journey in this country, you need us who need them,
02:58to be able to believe in each other.
02:58Butjes morsoอ you hum That lime, you need dame one.
03:05And seeing each other, you know, to listen very also.
03:06And I think one last night is next day.
03:06I think this is what we have learned about.
03:06Who will do this to the ens societals?
03:06That'll enjoy my my kebyos.
03:06You know.
03:08I know like that.

Recommended