A climatologist, a physicist, and a volcanologist set out to conquer the highest peak in the Alps. Through exceptional images, the film recounts their odyssey and reveals the immense wealth of this natural laboratory. Straddling France, Italy, and Switzerland, the Mont Blanc massif was formed 240 million years ago. Four times the size of Paris, it covers 400 km2. Its summit, the highest in Western Europe, rises to 4,810 meters. Three scientists begin its ascent: Martine Rebetez, a Swiss climatologist; Étienne Klein, a philosopher and physicist at the French Atomic Energy Commission; and Jacques-Marie Bardintzeff, a geologist and volcanologist. Advancing in two roped teams, they are accompanied by Jean-Franck Charlet and François-Régis Thévenet, mountain guides, as well as physiologist Hugo Nespoulet.

In a world tussling with climate change, an innovative start-up named All.g emerged with a mission t...
In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay made history as the first people to reach the top o...

Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...

Scientist Mark Plotkin races against time to save the ancient healing knowledge of Indian tribes fro...

Paragot and Bérardini: two climbers who fill all climbing enthusiasts with admiration. In Fontainebl...

A deep and visually stunning survey of age-old ideas about food, ecological connectedness, and perso...

A story of chopped fingers, fun, friendship and the First Ascent of Kunyang Chhish East (7,400m). Fo...

The first ascent of the Matterhorn was made on July 14, 1865 by Edward Whymper, Francis Douglas, Cha...

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

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

A documentary about a 15-day river-rafting trip on the Colorado River aimed at highlighting water co...

On an island in the Indian Ocean, the Comoros archipelago, unoccupied houses await the arrival of th...
27-year-old German alpinist Jost Kobusch wants to climb Everest, alone, without oxygen and in Winter...

The story of a brilliant ecologist with a plan to save the world by restoring the planet's forests. ...

Rotpunkt documents the advent, the agony and the art of the redpoint through Alex Megos’s efforts to...

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

Peter Westerveld, artist and visionary, doesn’t want institutions to resolve the problems linked to ...