Patagonien - Ein Jahr Abenteuer am Ende der Welt

In the organizer's words:

Lecture by Peter Gebhard

Patagonia is a region of superlatives. Photographer and journalist Peter Gebhard (GEO, stern) spent a whole year traveling the southern tip of South America on foot, on horseback, by jeep and on skis. An extreme landscape in which heaven and hell lie very close together: impenetrable jungle, gigantic glacier fields, mountaineering dream peaks such as Cerro Torre, Fitz Roy and Torres del Paine, to the east of which lies the sheer endless dusty expanse of the Patagonian steppe with its huge estancias, the world of the gauchos, the cowboys of the south, and in an extraordinary photo-film live reportage, Peter Gebhard tracks down the magical myth of Patagonia. He reports on his extreme adventures on the inland ice and in the cold rainforest, on the autumnal sheep drive with the gauchos, but also on unusual encounters and special people.