Die Bergretter - Season 8 (2016)

After his wife's death, Joseph Binder wants to sell the family farm. That surprises his kids, mainly unpopular adopted son Philipp, who fights and storms out in the Alps and joins geology-Ingeneers Carsten and Sabine Lechner, whom mountain guide Jan Fugain and rescuer Tobias Herbrechter accompany to repair broken measuring equipment. They are hit by a rocks avalanche. Philipp however acts on dark motives, vindictive to his biological mother who gave him up for adoption. Tobias is missing himself. Philipp stole explosives for his ultimate revenge, also on the Binder ...

[PART 1] Markus is pleasantly surprised by a visit from his elder mentor Norbert Bichler, who taught him, as fatherless knave, all about life and mountaineering before moving to Chile years ago. Markus notices during an Alpine tracking Norbert isn't nearly as fit, and gives in when pressured to present him to local dairy farm widow Monika Wimmer to preset him to her adult daughter, Marie, who is told Norbert is her father, which Monika stubbornly refuses to acknowledge, until an accident forces things.

[PART 1] Ambitious archaeologist Maik Zorn and Tom want to complete the research concerning legendary Hannibal's crossing of the Alps, supposedly passing the Dachstein of Tom's late sister Klara, who died in the last earlier expedition, and their famous father history professor Hans Hechtel, who never even told her mother what happened. On the way, their young local mountain guide Jonas makes a bad fall after saving lined-up novice Tom, whom Maik convinces going on is 'safer'. Markus spectacularly salvages him but his heart tampers on the flight to hospital. Markus's ...