PIEDRA DE LUZ
PIEDRA DE LUZ
Sebastián Álvaro Lomba
Spain / 2010 / 48'
PIEDRA DE LUZ
Sebastián Álvaro Lomba
Spain / 2010 / 48'

Gasherbrum IV, standing at 7,925 metres, is probably the most beautiful mountain in the Karakorum, the only one capable of putting the majesty of K2 into the shade. It was first climbed on 6 August 1958 by Italian mountaineers Walter Bonatti and Carlo Mauri. Fifty years after that great achievement, a team of friends, Alberto Iñurrategui, José Carlos Tamayo, Mikel Zabala, Juan Vallejo and Ferran Latorre, decide tackle this colossal monument to inaccessibility. It is the end of a long journey and the start of a great story of friendship in the mountains.

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Sebastián Álvaro Lomba

Sebastián Avaro
Sebastián Alvaro (Madrid 1950) is a journalist, author and film-maker. Since 1984 he has been the production manager of Al Filo de lo Imposible, one of the most successful TV series of TVE. With his team and troupe he travels across the five continents documenting all kind of mountain sports such as climbing, rafting and paragliding. He led his team to Everest and other “eight-thousands” and crossed the Antarctic. He has participated in the Trentofilmfestival with eleven films and to date has shot a hundred documentaries, including El último desafío (1989), Aguas blancas (1990), Tras las huellas (1993), El K-2 (1996), La Torre del pequeño Amin (1998), Annapurna (2000) and El territorio del leopardo (2004).

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