Vertical Limit 
   

A high-adrenaline tale of young climber Peter Garrett, who must launch a treacherous and extraordinary rescue effort up K2, the world's second highest peak. Confronting both his own limitations and the awesome power of nature's uncontrollable elements, Peter risks his life to save his sister, Annie, and her summit team in a race against time. The team is trapped in an icy grave at 26,000 feet - a death zone above the vertical limit of endurance where the human body cannot survive for long. Every second counts as Peter enlists the help of a crew of fellow climbers, including eccentric, reclusive mountain man Montgomery Wick, to ascend the chilling might of the world's most feared peak to save her.

This Wednesday in Cafe Amsterdam we have a very intersting talk by Mr.Jonathan Schlesinger who is working on research about the Manchu Era in Mongolia.                                                                   The topic of the lecture is: "Environmental Protection in Mongolia during the reign of the Manchus". It will start at 8PM as usual.

Jonathan Schlesinger, a young scholar from Harvard has spent the last few months going through the National Archives in Ulaanbaatar researching the environmental history of Mongolia. As is well known Mongolia might be the first country in history that established natural reserves like Terelj and Bogd Uul . But what is less known is that they were established during the reign of the Manchus, who ruled Mongolia from distant Beijing. Why did they do it in the first place? And what interest did the Manchus have in establishing protected areas in Mongolia? How where the protected areas enforced and what kind of penalties where in place? And were these rules obeyed or was it rather like today?

Jonathan Schlesinger who is writing his PHD thesis on the base of his findings, will talk about that and a lot more... About corrupt aristocrats, who enforced the rules against common people but were only too happy to hunt in Terelj themselves... About Chinese peasants who came in the summer to hunt for mushrooms and were promptly imprisoned and send back... or about the fur trade which very quickly exhausted the number of fur bearing animals near lake Khovsgol. 

Team Cafe Amsterdam

This Wednesday we have a wonderful film to show. Its a documentary that won an award from American film festival "Mountainfilm" in 2006. The film will start at 8pm.

Dear All,

For tomorrow's cultural evening (Wednesday 3rd of June at 8 PM) we decided to invite the music group "Jonon" for the second time on request of many, after their great and much appreciated concert in Cafe Amsterdam with Peter and Sara's farewell party beginning May.

The group is inspired by Mongolian traditional folk music. However, they combine and mix this traditional music with modern and western influences. The group has been founded only few months ago, but has gained in this short period already a high popularity among Mongolians.

Those who were not at the performance before shouldn't miss the this opportunity and those who were there have another chance to have a great musical evening. So everybody very welcome tomorrow 8PM in Cafe Amsterdam.

Team Cafe Amsterdam