Erőss, the first Hungarian to climb Mount Everest, suffered injuries in a climbing accident in the High Tatras in January of 2010 that required the amputation of his right leg under the knee. The documentary tracks his recuperation and rehabilitation, as well as his preparations to scale the heights of the world?s highest peaks once again.
Speaking after a press screening of the documentary on Thursday, Erőss attributed genetics and the result of much work to his return to climbing.
The documentary became much more than ?just a climbing film?, showing some of the most difficult struggles in his life, he said. The director naturally wanted ?a low point in the film? but that just didn?t come, he added.
Erőss returned to climbing with a prosthetic limb in June or 2010. He climbed the 7,100m Cho-Oyu on the border of Tibet and Nepal in September of the same year, and in the spring of 2011, he climbed the 8,516m Lhotse, the fourth-highest mountain on Earth.
Ádám Tőser, who produced the documentary, said Erőss was a clear thinker who never panics. He recalled both the challenges of filming Erőss climbing the Cho-Oyu as well as getting financing for the project.
Erőss was born in the Romanian city of Miercurea Ciuc in 1968. He started mountain climbing when he was just 13. He moved to Hungary when we was 20 and made his living as an industrial climber. He later became the only Hungarian to climb all five peaks over 7,000m in the area of the former Soviet Union. He was a member of the first Hungarian Mount Everest Expedition in 1996, but did not reach the peak until six years later, in 2002. Erőss has climbed nine of the world?s eleven peaks over 8,000m.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
