Miloš Smetana: Stronger than Death

Dramatic reconstruction of the story of the Czechoslovakia. climbing expedition in Peru 31.5.1970. On the thirty-first of May 1970, a massive earthquake struck Peru, killing approximately 75,000 people. Several towns and villages were razed to the ground. On that fateful day, a Czechoslovak mountaineering expedition also camped at the foot of Huascarán Mountain. Unfortunately, their camp stood directly in the path of a huge avalanche, which broke loose from the top of the highest mountain of the White Cordillera as a result of the earthquake and mercilessly swept away the entire base camp with all members of the expedition. Persons and cast: leader of the Peru expedition dr. Arnošt Černík (Josef Velda), ing. Ivan Bortel (Bohuslav Kalva), Milan Černý (Jiří Plachý), photographer Willem Heckel (Jiří Pick), Jiří Jech (Bohumil Křížek), Valerián Karoušek (Martin Růžek), Jaroslav Krecbach (Petr Svojtka) and others.