Rätikon

The Rätikon is a high limestone section of the Central Eastern Alps on the Swiss border, a compact range where sustained multi-pitch sport and alpine big-wall lines sit beside older trad routes. Climbers visit for steep limestone faces and the particular combination of long physical pitches and alpine approaches; Beat Kammerlander’s work on the range is explicitly tied to that lineage in the available footage.

Two films here profile that mix of contemporary performance and continuity. "WoGü" (350m / 8c) Full Ascent by Cédric Lachat - CLIMBING RAW EDITS is a raw ascent edit documenting Cédric Lachat’s one-day, no-fall lead of WoGü, the long sport multi-pitch first opened by Beat Kammerlander. The video is practical in focus: you will see every pitch led, the linking of hard sections, the sequence of rests and transitions on Rätikon limestone, and partner management with Nina Caprez acting as belayer and partner.

Swissway to Heaven - Full movie positions the Rätikon alongside other Swiss walls (Eiger, Gastlosen, Wendenstöcke, Lauterbrunnen) to show how long, hard pitches fit into a national tradition. That film pairs contemporary ascents by Cédric Lachat, Nina Caprez and others with interviews from earlier-generation climbers such as Beat Kammerlander and Claude Remy, so viewers get both the athletic demands of 8a+ territory on big faces and a sense of how gear, style and route-finding evolved in Swiss big-wall climbing.