Making History on the Trango Towers, Pakistan - Edu Marin

Director Guillaume Broust frames a compact field report: Edu Marìn, supported by his brother Alex and their father Novato, on the Nameless Tower (Trango Towers) above the Baltoro Glacier in Pakistan as they attempt and achieve the second free ascent of Eternal Flame. The film places the climb in its historical context — noting the original ascent by Wolfgang Güllich and Kurt Albert 33 years earlier and Alex and Thomas Huber’s first free ascent 13 years earlier — and shows the practical side of a high‑altitude, multi‑pitch big‑wall operation: hauling, bivying on the tower, fixed lines and the small, technical pitches that make Eternal Flame distinct. What matters here is the combination of contemporary climbing and lineage. The piece intercuts the Marìn party’s effort with contributions from Alexander and Thomas Huber and archival material tied to the route’s history, so the film reads as both an ascent film and a short record of a landmark route’s afterlife. At 33 minutes it focuses on sequence and decision—ropework, belay exchanges, weather and logistics—rather than spectacle, which makes it useful as a practical document of modern free climbing on a remote Karakoram tower.