Zachary Teller, un viejo guía alpino, acompaña, contra su voluntad, a su hermano Chris, que quiere apoderarse de las pertenencias de los pasajeros de un avión que se ha estrellado contra un pico de los Alpes franceses. La única superviviente es una muchacha hindú.
A story of a family with numerous members drowned in their sentimental problems.
It is 1 p.m. on June 30, 1982, when Christophe Profit, 24, shows up at the foot of Les Drus with his pof bag, his climbing shoes and nothing else. He will try the west face of Les Drus in "solo", in the Mont Blanc massif by "Directe Américaine", 1100 meters of vertical and smooth rock. Christophe will achieve the feat of climbing the wall in free solo, without using a rope or any belaying technique. At 4:10 p.m., barely more than three hours after the start of his ascent, the new climbing star can embrace the Virgin of the Drus at the same time as the career of a high-level mountaineer. Three years later, on July 25, 1985, he climbed the north faces of the Matterhorn, the Eiger and the Jorasses in the same day. Awarded at many mountain film festivals, this great documentary is a magnificent testimony to one man's passion for climbing, the mountains and adventure.
"Perilous Assignment" is an episode of ABC's Walt Disney Presents. Disney loved to show viewers behind the scenes of the daring shoots of its theatrically released or TV shows. The theme of the episode is the making of his next film, The Third Man on the Mountain, an adaptation of James Ramsey Ullman's novel Banner in the Sky, based on the true story of the first ascent of the Matterhorn. Walt Disney will not be limited to a simple promotional making-of. He offers to meet exceptional people, including the French mountain guide Gaston Rébuffat. The latter will show climbing techniques and then reveal breathtaking images of his ascents of steep cliffs with a client for the ascent of Mont-Blanc, filmed for the occasion. In 1958, Walt Disney will therefore offer him to be deputy director on the high mountain scenes of the film "The Third Man on the Mountain".
Directed by Jean-Marc Boivin in 1977, Glace Extrême is a documentary about mountaineering and extreme skiing at the Aiguille Verte and the Grand Pilier D'angle in the Mont-Blanc massif chain in France, with the legends of mountaineering Jean-Marc Boivin, Patrick Gabarrou and ski champion Patrick Vallencant. It was broadcast in the Carnet de L'Aventure on France 2 in 1980.
Gaston Rébuffat forma parte de la historia del alpinismo. Prodigio de Marsella, guía de alta montaña de la compañía de guías de Chamonix y famoso por haber escalado las caras norte más famosas: unos son 1º entrenador, otros 1º francés o 1º como guía. Fotografiada por Georges Tairraz, esta obra maestra estrenada en 1955 revela la belleza del esfuerzo y el placer de compartir en la montaña. Más allá de la empresa, la montaña no está para satisfacer ambiciones egocéntricas. Un clásico !
En octubre de 2010, dos de los mejores alpinistas de Francia, Christophe Dumarest y Yann Borgnet, hicieron realidad el sueño de todo escalador: una ascensión alpina de seis días por las grandes vías de Walter Bonatti a través del macizo del Mont Blanc. Dumarest y Borgnet completaron por primera vez la cara norte de las Grandes Jorasses; luego escalaron el Grand Capucin y el Pilier Rouge du Brouillard, completando su hazaña con la ascensión al Mont Blanc. Su descenso en parapente en Chamonix completa su hazaña con un toque divertido.
Los escaladores y el director tomaron la decisión ética de no utilizar helicópteros para rodar la película.
A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain guides and their families in the French Alps, near Chamonix and the French/Swiss/Italian borders... Like his father, Zian Servettaz is a dedicated mountain man. His Italian-born wife Bianca does not adjust well to his mountain village in France, and to the ever life-threatening dangers presented by his mountain guiding and climbing. She briefly returns to Italy and to her family. However, after Zian's insistence and trip to Italy, she returns to mountain life in the French Alps. Once back there, events will unfold, changing their lives as well as those of other mountain people forever.
The owner of the place of Chamonix covets the inn, run by the Michel's uncle, whose business goes bad. Michel decides to participate in a ski competition to help uncle.
El alpinista estadounidense Gary Hemming marcó la era de los años 60. La historia de este "excepcional" personaje está íntimamente ligada a la del rescate de los dos montañeros alemanes en la cara oeste de los Drus, en 1966, rescate del que él había tomado la iniciativa. Mientras los servicios oficiales de emergencia de la EHM intentan llegar hasta ellos desde arriba, una cuerda pirata formada por Gary Hemming, René Desmaison, Lothar Mauch, Gil Bodin, Mike Brurke, François Guillot, el cineasta Gérard Bauer organiza para unirlos desde abajo y logró después de una feroz lucha el rescate. La prensa aprovecha el evento y eleva a Gary Hemming al rango de héroe nacional. Todos los periódicos presentan a este tipo grande con una actitud genial, ropa que no combina, sonrisa jovial y cabello largo y rubio en la primera página. A partir de entonces, fue apodado: "el beatnik de las cumbres".
Con motivo del 150 aniversario de la primera ascensión de la Aiguille Verte, la Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix está produciendo una película que repasa las fechas clave de esta cumbre tan querida por ella. 'La Verte' es objeto de deseo de muchos montañeros desde hace siglo y medio. Grandes nombres han desfilado en busca de esta cumbre de 4122m: Edward Whymper, Michel Croz, Albert Mummery, Armand Charlet, Marco Siffredi... La Verte marcó la historia del alpinismo, inspirando a Gaston Rébuffat que advertía a los futuros aspirantes a esta cumbre: "Primero en el Verte eres montañés, en el Verte te conviertes en montañés".
Guido Magnone's incredible adventure begins strangely on the banks of the Ourcq canal among a group of kids who dream of swimming. Guido, the solitary son of "rital", dives to get noticed, succeeds, takes a liking to it, breaks his first record, collects medals. At the same time, he draws, attends the Beaux-Arts, is accepted with open arms and befriends the sculptors César and Féraud. At the end of the war, during a health stay in Chamonix, it is love at first sight for the mountains, climbing. Guido's ascent is now dizzying. He stormed the west face of the Drus, then the Fitzroy and the Tour de Mustagh, summits reputed to be impossible. He rubs shoulders with the greatest, Lionel Terray, Maurice Herzog, and participates in the Makalu expedition, camera in hand, or those of Jannu and Chacraraju. Later, in his fifties, Guido hangs up the carabiners and participates in the foundation of the UCPA
"Flammes de Pierre" is the first documentary made by Gaston Rébuffat himself in 1947. It depicts Rébuffat in full ascent of the Flammes De Pierre, wild ridges in the heart of the Mont Blanc massif overlooking Chamonix. Like Roger Frison-Roche, Walter Bonatti, René Desmaison or Giusto Gervasutti, Gaston Rébuffat has written and filmed the great pages of contemporary mountaineering but above all, he knew how to talk about it with enough poetry so that it is not simply airtight race stories for spectators. Stories that have been triggers for many readers, who have come to know “stone flames” thanks to him.
Kick off the season with Warren Miller’s Timeless, presented by Volkswagen, as we celebrate 70 years of ski cinematography and travel with top athletes across the globe to renowned mountain locations. Featuring ski legends like Glen Plake, alongside newcomers Caite Zeliff, Jaelin Kauf, and Baker Boyd. Road-trip with rippers from Arlberg to the Matterhorn, be immersed in the hometown hill of Eldora and discover a different side of Jackson Hole, plus much more.
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, Chamonix.