"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.

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In 1961 the southern face of the Central Pillar of Mont Blanc was still unclimbed. Two roped parties...

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In 1975, Raymond Renaud, Yves Pollet-Villard, Maurice Gicquel, Maurice Cretton, Jean Coudray, Yvon M...

In 1973, 6 guides from the National Ski and Mountaineering School (ENSA), including Charles Daubas a...

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Seventy-five years after Brad Washburn, one of the greatest aerial mountain photographers of all tim...

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

The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m ...

Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base cam...

The story of Enrique Herreros (1903-1977), cartoonist, advertiser, poster designer, talent manager, ...

1967: Two of the world's best climbers, Yvon Chouinard and Royal Robbins, tackle the west face of Se...