Niemandsland

The spectacular first ascent of the Marmolada south face by an Englishwoman and two Dolomite mountain guides, whose rope team broke during the First World War and treason.
In the documentary Niemandsland Reinhold Messner lets us relive the spectacular first ascent of the Marmolada south face by the Englishwoman Tomasson and the Dolomite mountain guides Bettega and Zagonel on the eve of the First World War. Despite the pressure of time, storm, hail, rockfall and an icy wall, her pioneering act succeeded. Messner leads us from the no man's land mountain, where neither law nor order, neither nationality nor gender count, to the no man's land of the Dolomite front, where the rope team of those three, but also the friendship and trust between Bettega and Zagonel break up. In the end, Zagonel puts a heavy burden on his former partner: Was Bettega really an opportunistic traitor or was he forced into espionage by the Italians?