Nanga Parbat (film) age life where they are studying in a school. Reinhold goes to a hospital to meet Karl Herrligkoffer, who had been leading the earlier expeditions to the Nanga Parbat. There they both agree to take a German expedition to ascend the summit of Nanga parbat. They begin their expedition to Nanga Parbat leaving for Pakistan where they first reach Rawalpindi, a city in the north of Pakistan. There they have to convince the German Councillor for issuance of further fundings from German government. They then begin their journey first approaching to their base camp Rupal Flank in Gilgit Baltistan province.
Günther Messner Günther Messner Günther Messner (18 May 1946 – 29 June 1970) was an Italian mountaineer from South Tyrol and the younger brother of Reinhold Messner. Günther climbed some of the most difficult routes in the Alps during the 1960s, and joined the Nanga Parbat-Expedition in 1970 just before the beginning of the expedition due to an opening within the team. Günther was a member of a 1970 expedition to Nanga Parbat led by . Herrligkoffer had already organized six expeditions to Nanga Parbat and was said to be obsessed with the mountain after his half-brother, climber Willy Merkl, along with