Dure Limite: Caving in a mill, Mer de Glace

Dure Limite: Caving in a mill, Mer de Glace (1986)

December 17th, 19860h 8min

Documentary, Adventure
100%

Overview

The Mer de Glace in Chamonix, November 86: every summer the meltwater that runs on the surface of the glacier flows into a huge crevasse called "a mill". In 1897, Joseph VALLOT had explored it to a depth of 60m, a lake had prevented him from going any further. Since then no one had descended into this well. In the fall, a multidisciplinary team made up of mountaineers including Jean Marc BOIVIN, speleologists and scientists descending into the crevasse... Superb images and live comments in a temperature of 0° and a humidity of 100%. The team reached 110m deep under the ice, a world first in glacier exploration. Jean marc BOIVIN seems delighted with his first speleological exploration. With the participation of Serge AVIOTTE, Jean Michel ASSELIN, Jean Marc BOIVIN, Janot LAMBERTON, Pierrot PILLET, Louis REYNAUD, Jean Luc RIGAUD and Denis TERMIER.


Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!

Trailer

Similar Movies

L'Homme qui revient de haut

L'Homme qui revient de haut


Released on: 2004-02-02
Documentary

Marco Étoile Filante

Marco Étoile Filante


Released on: 2008-11-18
Action, Documentary, Drama

Avid for steep slopes, Marco Siffredi (1979-2002) obeys only one rule: not to fall. This gifted kid ...

The Descent

The Descent


Released on: 2005-07-08
Adventure, Horror

After a personal tragedy, Sarah joins her friends on a caving expedition in the Appalachian Mountain...

Stars at Noon

Stars at Noon


Released on: 1959-01-01
Documentary, Adventure

Les Etoiles de Midi is an engaging docudrama about some of the more spectacular exploits of French m...

First in Line

First in Line


Released on: 1944-02-23
Family, Adventure, Drama, Action

A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain ...

Ski The Outer Limits

Ski The Outer Limits


Released on: 1969-01-02
Documentary, Adventure

"Ski The Outer Limits" is a poetic exploration of man's "conquest of the useless," his quest to expa...

The Cave

The Cave


Released on: 2005-08-26
Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller

After a group of biologists discovers a huge network of unexplored caves in Romania and, believing i...

Gary Hemming, le beatnik des cimes

Gary Hemming, le beatnik des cimes


Released on: 1996-03-01
Documentary

The American mountaineer Gary Hemming marked the era of the 1960s. The story of this "exceptional" c...

The World of Gaston Rébuffat

The World of Gaston Rébuffat


Released on: 2009-01-01
Documentary, Adventure

The World of Gaston Rébuffat is a documentary on mountaineering which takes place at Gendarme Du Pic...

The Mountain

The Mountain


Released on: 1956-05-31
Adventure, Drama

Selfish Chris Teller pressures his older brother, a retired climber, to accompany him on a treachero...

L'Aventure

L'Aventure


Released on: 2021-01-24
Documentary

In the Briançonnais mountains, in France, men and women on the roads of exile find the courage to cr...

La Lumière du Rocher

La Lumière du Rocher


Released on: 1986-01-01
Documentary

Voyages au centre de la Terre : Dans les pas de Jules Verne

Voyages au centre de la Terre : Dans les pas de Jules Verne


Released on: 2023-10-12
Documentary, TV Movie

Beyond the Summits

Beyond the Summits


Released on: 2009-05-20
Adventure, Documentary

Catherine Destivelle is an ambassador for the French Alps and is well known in France and abroad. In...

The Rescue: 54 Hours Under the Ground

The Rescue: 54 Hours Under the Ground


Released on: 2022-07-18
Documentary

After a freak accident, experienced caver George Linnane was left with multiple life-threatening inj...

Les Conquérants De l'Impossible : Portrait De René Desmaison

Les Conquérants De l'Impossible : Portrait De René Desmaison


Released on: 1985-01-01
Documentary

This episode is part of the series "The Conquerors of the Impossible (2/3)". From the 1950s to the 1...

La Voie Bonatti

La Voie Bonatti


Released on: 2011-01-01
Documentary

In October 2010, two of France's top mountaineers, Christophe Dumarest and Yann Borgnet, fulfilled a...

Perilous Assignment

Perilous Assignment


Released on: 1959-11-06
Documentary, Adventure

"Perilous Assignment" is an episode of ABC's Walt Disney Presents. Disney loved to show viewers behi...

Pierre Mazeaud, La Vie En Face(s)

Pierre Mazeaud, La Vie En Face(s)


Released on: 2013-01-01
Documentary

Pierre Mazeau has managed to unite three of his passions which seem to have nothing in common, at a ...

The Frison-Roche Track

The Frison-Roche Track


Released on: 2009-01-01
Documentary

Roger Frison-Roche born in Paris in 1906 and moved to Chamonix at the age of 17. He was quickly adop...