After four years of work, the documentary film The Road Never Ends, about the legendary Latvian mountaineer Teodors Ķirsis, also known as Tedis, will hit the screen. The film draws on more than 70 hours of archival material, including previously unreleased footage, footage shot by Teodors Ķirsis himself, diaries, and the memories of his contemporaries.
Teodors Ķirsis is one of the most significant figures in the history of mountaineering in Latvia. Since the early 1990s, his name has been closely associated with the first major achievements of Latvian mountaineers on the world’s highest peaks. Carrying the newly restored Latvian flag, he set out to conquer the world’s highest peaks, becoming one of the most striking symbols of Latvia’s regained independence. A story about the peaks of our lives and the world.