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- History, advice and demonstrations of mountaineering in the Mont Blanc massif by the renowned guides of the National School of Ski and Mountaineering from Chamonix. The film starts with an historical summary illustrating the aspirations and methods that lead man to conquer the mountains. Armand Charlet teaches mountaineering techniques and takes his students to the field for glacier or rock exercises. Gaston Rebuffat makes demonstrations of particularly dangerous climbs. At altitude, people move in solitude, cold and silence, like circus acrobats without spectators, but nothing stops the modern mountaineer.
- The famous Swiss mountaineer Michel Vaucher plays here the role of Walter Bonatti during the historic ascent of the south-west pillar of the Drus (the Bonatti Pillar), in the Mont Blanc massif in 1955. An 800-meter vertical wall that Bonatti has faced alone for six days with only three days provisions. The hunger, the thirst, the discouragement he had to face when he was stuck on the wall unable to go up or down and the way he overcame this dramatic situation and achieved this exceptional ascent.
- In 1963, a discussion around a meal in a mountain refuge was an opportunity for an old mountaineer to present the various refuges, shelters and huts of the Mont-Blanc massif. He also explains to what extent recent technical developments, and in particular the use of the helicopter, have completely transformed these places of rest and meetings in the mountains to make them more comfortable and accessible to both novices and experienced mountaineers.