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Through the testimonies of great Himalayan mountaineers, journalists, historians on the attempt to open a new route on the Amnye Machen (Tibet), the author tries to understand the desire to go "up there", despite the risk of never coming back. With testimonials from: Jean-Michel Asselin, Christine Janin, François Damilano, Pierre Mazeaud, Jean-Christophe Lafaille, Patrick Berhault, Reinhold Messner, Bertrand Roche dit Zébulon, Katia Buffetrille, Elizabeth Hawley, Junko Tabei, Sylvie Braud, Kurt Diemberger.

Legendary high-altitude climber Reinhold Messner pushes himself to the limit in achieving the first successful summit without the use of supplemental oxygen.

At 60, Alain Robert has become a legend around the world, a genius clairvoyant madman from whom we do not know what to expect except that the Champagne flows, that nothing is quite planned and that life prevails. always on the rest. In the free solo niche, who can claim such longevity? Such consistency? Making crazy risk-taking a world of life is the legacy that this generation of rockers passes on to us. Alain is a rocker, rock heart too, just a rock, crazy about freedom. He is probably the oldest climber to dare to venture on a comeback without any safety equipment on the vertiginous cliffs of the Verdon, 20 years after having left them.

In 1983, Ron Fawcett, along with his wife and a group of friends, visited the Gorges du Verdon in southern France to pursue his passion for rock climbing. In the film, Ron and Gill are interviewed in Britain and climb and train in the Peak District. Then in France, they camp with tents in a campsite, and between two ascents, they appear on the terrace of a café in the evening chatting with Patrick Edlinger. Fawcett is known for being among the best climbers of the 1970s and 1980s, and for being one of the first professional climbers.

Reconstruction of the July 1961 attempt by a Franco-Italian group to climb the Freney Pillar in the Mont Blanc massif. The expedition consisted of Frenchmen Pierre Mazaud, Robert Guillaume, Pierre Kohlmann, and Antoine Vieille, and Italians Walter Bonatti, Andrea Oggioni, and Roberto Gallieni. The groups arrived separately at the Col de la Fourche camp, but with the same objective. They joined forces by chance to conquer the famous peak. The attempt was hampered by bad weather, and three Frenchmen and one Italian perished during the descent.

Roc'n Wall 97 is a climbing documentary directed by Maurice Rebeix and produced by Concerto Vertical, it is part of the Roc'n Wall series. Rebeix and Patrick Edlinger summon the fine flower of climbing of the year 97: Frédéric Devoluet, François Legrand, François Lombard, Fred and François Nicole, Liv Sansoz and others, in the south of France on the cliffs of Orgon in the Massif des Alpilles, and at Les Traverses in the Hautes-Alpes.

Roger Frison-Roche born in Paris in 1906 and moved to Chamonix at the age of 17. He was quickly adopted by local mountaineers and became the first guide in the Company not to have been born in the valley. He is also an insatiable explorer, in love with landscapes and peoples, having traveled from the Hoggar to the Sami camps in Lapland. And the author, among others, of the famous adventure novel Premier de Cordée. This documentary, made up of archive images and interviews, exposes the prolific life of a man who communicated his passion for the mountains by all possible means. A young journalist from Chamonix follows in the footsteps of Roger Frison-Roche. She meets people who knew him and others who followed in his footsteps: guides, filmmaker and author Philippe Claudel, a director, his family; on a trip to Lapland, Algeria and Chamonix.

Jean des Bossons is a documentary-fiction which recounts the activities of a high mountain guide in 1947. Around Chamonix Mont-Blanc, the guide Jean des Bossons, interpreter by the mountaineer Armand Charlet, accompanies on mountain hikes, Jean-Pierre, an apprentice guide. The novice, skis on the shoulder, is already clumsy. The professional taught him how to travel on skis uphill and downhill, then mountaineering in ice and rock parishes. By dint of training, Jean-Pierre has made it his job. Guides are also lifeguards. A group went to a glacier to rescue a man who had fallen into a crevasse. During this rescue, Jean des Bossons is the victim of an accident. A drama that prevents him from practicing the profession, but not climbing. The man sinks into the fog and Jean-Pierre cannot find him.

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.

History of the first ascent of Aconcagua by the south face in February 1954 by the French shock team led by René Ferlet and composed of Lucien Bérardini, Adrien Dagory, Edmond Denis, Pierre Lesueur, Robert Paragot and Guy Poulet . In seven days of combat, they extricate themselves from the mountain in a pitiful state; all except Robert Paragot will be victims of severe frostbite which earned them amputations, some important as for "Lulu" Bérardini who lost part of his left hand. This documentary is part of the series "The Walls Of Memory".

Director Damien Roz was twelve years old when he attended a conference by mountaineer Jean-Marie Choffat who told of his passion for the mountains and his fight against cancer. Shocked, the young boy said to himself that one day he would tell the story of this extraordinary man. 29 years ago Jean-Marie Choffat, a seasoned mountaineer, suffered from liver cancer. It was then announced to his parents that he only had a few months left to live. But Jean-Marie, who had just had a son, promised himself that he would see his son grow up until he was at least 20... His son Marcellin is almost thirty today and Jean Marie is still there. Jean-Marie lived through the golden age of mountaineering with some 1,200 ascents around the world and many firsts... If he remembers an ascent of the north face of the Grandes Jorasses between two chemotherapy sessions, he evokes his strong friendships with Yannick Seigneur, René Desmaison or Gaston Rébuffat.

"Sur Les Traces De Premier De Cordée", a color documentary from 1952 which will be released the same year as the eponymous photo book published by Arthaud, features Roger Frison-Roche and his sidekick Georges Tairraz II on the Aiguille du Grépon (3482 m) in the Aiguilles massif which overlooks the Chamonix valley. Together they co-produce the images of the ascent. The young Pierre Tairraz, who completed his training in Paris, at the school in the rue de Vaugirard (Cinema promotion in 1953), also took part in this very technical aerial filming as assistant to his father Georges Tairraz II and cameraman.

L'Appel Des Cimes (The Call Of The Peaks), directed by Alain Pol, is a documentary commissioned by the CAF and the various French ministries on the practice of post-war mountaineering. In 1946, climbers trained at the Fontainebleau Climbing School. Guy Poulet and Jacques Poincenot try to climb the Aiguilles de Chamonix but fail during the climbing phase. After a night in a refuge with Denise Rouzeau and the guide Pierre Allain, the mountaineers make a new attempt. Successful demonstration for those who continued the approach walk then the passage of the seracs of the glacier. On the rock, the roped party crosses a chimney and a crack to reach the summit and abseil down. Led by high mountain scouts, Guy and Jacques rediscover the glaciers and needles of the Mont-Blanc massif during the next lesson.

Died but not forgotten. Three years ago, Ueli Steck, probably Switzerland's most famous mountaineer, died in an accident in the Himalayas when he was just 40 years old. He scaled the highest north faces of the Alps at record speed and without a rope. What pushed you to surpass yourself? In this SFR documentary DOK, her family recounts how she lived her risky passion when she was left behind. Three close friends travel again to the Everest region where he died.