Mountain Sickness of the Russian Border Guard

Высотная болезнь русского пограничника

Also known as Vysotnaya bolezn russkogo pogranichnika

A personal video diary documenting physical and emotional stages of the ascent to the highest point of the former Soviet Union. Through the conquest of the Peak of Communism in the Pamirs one can trace the ideological development of the relationship between humans and nature - from spiritual to militaristic.