German film about a Himalayan expedition and the search for a mountain spirit, who guarded, according to the tradition of the locals, the peaks of high mountains. The long-lost and recently rediscovered and restored film is now a unique cinematic document because it is the first feature film that was shot directly in the Himalayas (up to 6400 m altitude). Hans Ertl even turned his Bell & Howell to the main summit of Sia Kangri, 7422m. Likewise, the film contains footage from India and Tibet, from a time long before the emergence of mass tourism. Some of the footage was later recycled in ‘Lost horizon’ (1937) by Frank Capra and in ‘Storm over Tibet’ (1952).

Gustav Diessl
as Dr. Norman - Ethnologe

Erika Dannhoff
as Anne

Günther Oskar Dyhrenfurth
as Professor Wille - Leiter der Internationalen Himalaya-Expedition

Jarmila Vacková
as Ellen - his Wife

Hans Winzeler
as Dr. Winkler - Expedition doctor

Hans Ertl
as Hans - junger Bergsteiger der Himalaya-Expedition

Albert Höcht
as Bertl - junger Bergsteiger der Himalaya-Expedition

André Roch
as André - junger Bergsteiger der Himalaya-Expedition

James Belaieff
as Jimmy - junger Bergsteiger der Himalaya-Expedition

Piero Ghiglione
as Der italienische Bergsteiger und Journalist