Legendarni drenovci
The Legendary Cornelians The first winter ascents on the Slovene mountains were performed in 1907 by Rudolf Badjura and Bogumil Brinsek. Three years later, they were joined by Pavel Kunaver, Ivan Tavcar and Ivan Michler. They chose the name for their society, Dren (Cornel) after the tree Cornus mas which has an extremely dense, but at the same time flexible type of wood. Cornelians popularised mountain hiking and mountaineering; they were the fathers of skiing in Slovenia; they marked trails and became pioneers of artistic mountain photography. In the summer of 1911 they were the first to climb the northern Triglav wall without a guide. This route is now called the Slovene Route. The next winter, they undertook the first ever winter ascent to Slovenia's highest peak, Triglav. In February 1910, the Carniolan State Governor Baron Theodor Schwarz von Karsten established a society for cave exploration, but all the board members were elderly gentlemen who had never seen an underground cave from the inside. Embarrassed, they turned for help to the Cornel Society Secretary, Bogumil Brinsek, and other Cornelians - and the legend was born! Cornelians were with their modern - now we would call it a 'sporting' - approach to cave exploration, a true world avant-garde. They were first to incorporate mountaineering techniques in caves; they tackled deep gorges and vertical walls, and set a series of records and milestones which were not surpassed until one hundred years later. They were ahead of their time through the use of their scientific methodology - they diligently mapped the caves and were systematically profiling them in a cave cadastre. Between 1910 and 1917, the Cornelians explored more than 400 caves, made more than 350 sketches, blueprints and cadastre descriptions, and compiled an extensive journal and photo archive. In 1917, Kunaver and Michler explored and mapped 101 caves in an area measuring 90 square kilometres of the Trnovo Forest-Banjsice Plateau, on the frontline of the Eleventh Battle of Isonzo. This unimaginable feat remains unsurpassed even today. The story of the Cornelians ended after World War One with the Treaty of Rapallo. The lives of these young people tell us the story about the beginning and birth of the Slovene sporting intellectual elite, about Slovene vitality, exploration zeal and national pride.
- Runtime
- 46m
- Released
- 2016
Details
Release year: 2016
Storyline
The Legendary Cornelians The first winter ascents on the Slovene mountains were performed in 1907 by Rudolf Badjura and Bogumil Brinsek. Three years later, they were joined by Pavel Kunaver, Ivan Tavcar and Ivan Michler. They chose the name for their society, Dren (Cornel) after the tree Cornus mas which has an extremely dense, but at the same time flexible type of wood. Cornelians popularised mountain hiking and mountaineering; they were the fathers of skiing in Slovenia; they marked trails and became pioneers of artistic mountain photography. In the summer of 1911 they were the first to climb the northern Triglav wall without a guide. This route is now called the Slovene Route. The next winter, they undertook the first ever winter ascent to Slovenia's highest peak, Triglav. In February 1910, the Carniolan State Governor Baron Theodor Schwarz von Karsten established a society for cave exploration, but all the board members were elderly gentlemen who had never seen an underground cave from the inside. Embarrassed, they turned for help to the Cornel Society Secretary, Bogumil Brinsek, and other Cornelians - and the legend was born! Cornelians were with their modern - now we would call it a 'sporting' - approach to cave exploration, a true world avant-garde. They were first to incorporate mountaineering techniques in caves; they tackled deep gorges and vertical walls, and set a series of records and milestones which were not surpassed until one hundred years later. They were ahead of their time through the use of their scientific methodology - they diligently mapped the caves and were systematically profiling them in a cave cadastre. Between 1910 and 1917, the Cornelians explored more than 400 caves, made more than 350 sketches, blueprints and cadastre descriptions, and compiled an extensive journal and photo archive. In 1917, Kunaver and Michler explored and mapped 101 caves in an area measuring 90 square kilometres of the Trnovo Forest-Banjsice Plateau, on the frontline of the Eleventh Battle of Isonzo. This unimaginable feat remains unsurpassed even today. The story of the Cornelians ended after World War One with the Treaty of Rapallo. The lives of these young people tell us the story about the beginning and birth of the Slovene sporting intellectual elite, about Slovene vitality, exploration zeal and national pride.
Top credits
- Marko Simic — Self
- Jurij Kunaver — Self
- Marko Hrovat — Bogumil Brinsek
- Armin Krivec — Pavel Kunaver