14+1 NIVES MEROI E ROMANO BENET

2017, Italy, 49min

Director: Vida Valenčič

Premiere in Basque Country

Nives Meroi along with her sister Leila, Reinhold Messner, Erri de luca and Silvo Karo among others talk about her climbing mate and husband, Romano Benet. Going back to when they first met and began to climb together, their greatest feats and how they became the first “couple” to climb fourteen 8,000-metre peaks without using supplementary oxygen. In Messner’s own words “This couple is a striking example of exceptional strength and humanity.”