Living in Chamonix means observing Mont Blanc all the time. It's such an iconic summit." For several years, athlete Hillary Gerardi has shone on the podiums of the biggest trail races, but her gaze is set on high altitude. Victim of a terrible accident a few years earlier, she questions her legitimacy as a mountaineer to measure herself against the most prestigious mountain running record. The round trip starting from the church of Chamonix, the capital of mountaineering, to the summit of Mont Blanc. Secretly, Hillary has dedicated her last three years to this meticulous preparation, but that was without counting on climatic hazards that are much less controllable than her own determination... On the eve of the International Year of Glacier Preservation in 2025 (UNESCO), this inspiring film harmoniously combines the sporting performance of Hillary's record and the awareness of the importance of glaciers through the speech of glaciologist Heidi Selvestre.
"Perilous Assignment" is an episode of ABC's Walt Disney Presents. Disney loved to show viewers behi...
WALMSLEY is a feature-length documentary that follows Jim Walmsley’s journey from the depths of a US...
In October 2010, two of France's top mountaineers, Christophe Dumarest and Yann Borgnet, fulfilled a...
This is Gaston Rebuffat's fourth film, in which, with several close friends, he discovers the sublim...
A tragic expedition to the Himalayas, told by the great mountaineer Reinhold Messner, who lost his b...
Joseph Vallot and his team of guides and porters climb Mont Blanc in 1906. Their ascent will take th...
July 2022. Two high mountain guides, Frédéric Dégoulet and Benjamin Ribeyre embark on a journey arou...
The best films of the European Outdoor Film Tour 11/12.
Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps, rises to 4,810 m and was first climbed on August 8, 1786. ...
Battlefield is a tribute to all second-wave feminist movements, an imaginary journey between differe...
Eleven-year-old Papik (nickname for Yannick Vallençant) dreams of climbing Mont Blanc with his fathe...
27-year-old German alpinist Jost Kobusch wants to climb Everest, alone, without oxygen and in Winter...
A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain ...
A remarkably intimate portrait of an artist on tour navigating identity, family, expectations, and a...