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.
The best films of the European Outdoor Film Tour 11/12.
This is Gaston Rebuffat's fourth film, in which, with several close friends, he discovers the sublim...
27-year-old German alpinist Jost Kobusch wants to climb Everest, alone, without oxygen and in Winter...
Joseph Vallot and his team of guides and porters climb Mont Blanc in 1906. Their ascent will take th...
"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...
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...
July 2022. Two high mountain guides, Frédéric Dégoulet and Benjamin Ribeyre embark on a journey arou...
In October 2010, two of France's top mountaineers, Christophe Dumarest and Yann Borgnet, fulfilled a...
A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain ...
Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Philippe Noiret - This is the story of a bunch of friends. Com...