Shot on location on Mount Washington, New Hampshire using 35 mm, the film is said to have required a "Herculean effort," since all the camera equipment and reels had to be hiked up the mountainside.
Dr. Wolfgang Schlitz, a "gentleman of leisure" with an exaggerated mustache visiting New Hampshire on a holiday from Obergurgl, arrives by car at the foot of Mt.
Continuing his ascent along the tracks of the cog railway, he reaches the observatory at the summit but is told by the attendant he must stay in Camden Cottage, from the windows of which he watches the sun set.
Washington," who constructs a makeshift dummy of a female skier and sends her off a cliff, luring Schlitz perilously close to the edge.
Catching it and dropping it multiple times, he eventually fishes it out of the plunge pool of a waterfall, where he finds the suitcase broken open but the bottle of liquor intact and has one last drink before discarding it.
Washington has enjoyed cult status at Dartmouth College,[5] where it has been screened annually since the 1970s to first-year students on trips to the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge.