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In the mountains, Diotima meets Karl and fall in love and have an affair. Karl's friend Vigo mistakenly believes she's in love with him, causing rifts in all relationships.
A profile of the 1928 Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
A young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing on the nearby mountains.
At the end of the 18th century, the wealthy French scholar Saussure comes to a small Alpine village and offers 1,000 pieces of gold to anyone who can lead him to the summit of Mont Blanc. The young farmer's son Jacques Balmat wants to take on the dangerous task, even though his father has told him from an early age about the mighty mountain spirits who guard a legendary treasure of gold on the mountain peak.
The exploits of village girl Hannes and her attempts to master skiing and ski-jumping aided by the local expert.
Hannes is employed at the Mont Blanc Observatory; the only outside connection is a pilot and Hella over the radio. Hella ascends the mountain but her father dies along the way.
A reportage cross-cutting film about the development of Africa from 1900-1936, using archive footage and film material from earlier African expeditions.