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Climbing the Matterhorn (1946)

Climbing the Matterhorn poster
Directed by
Irving Allen
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
21 min
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A documentary from the 1940s about climbers attempting to scale the Matterhorn mountain. It shows the preparations and the climb itself.

educationalold-fashionedseriousinformativecalmhistoricawe-inspiringclassic

What happens

Climbing the Matterhorn is a 1947 American short documentary film directed by Irving Allen. It won an Oscar at the 20th Academy Awards in 1948 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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