Catégorie film: June 16

2022

Barefoot Charles

The Reel Rock team, led by Peter Mortimer, continues its world tour of the most fascinating characters on the climbing planet. The bouldering site in the Fontainebleau forest saw the birth of sport climbing in the 1930s. Today it is one of the world’s leading bouldering sites. Director Josh Lowell turned his camera on an unknown climber, Charles Albert, who seems to have stepped out of a...

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Fedchenlo, the forgotten glacier

Cédric Gras and Matthieu Tordeur set off to cross the world’s largest mountain glacier, the Fedchenko in the heart of the Pamir, to explore this totally forgotten area. It takes a week’s walk at an altitude of 4,000m, crossing glaciers, passes and dangerous rivers to reach the banks of the giant glacier, 77km long, with a mass one and a half times that of all the glaciers in the Alps...

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The Velvet Queen

In the heart of the Tibetan highlands, the photographer Vincent Munier takes the writer Sylvain Tesson on a quest for the snow leopard. He introduces him to the delicate art of stalking, reading tracks and to the patience required to catch a glimpse of this elusive animal. By travelling to summits inhabited by an invisible presence, the two men weave a dialogue on our place among living beings,...

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The Associated Bad Boys : the Calvarin Rope Team

Over a career spanning 20 years, the guides Emmanuel Pellissier and Sam Beaugey and their client and friend Fraçois Calvarin, the ‘Sales Gosses’ gang (the book by Sam Beaugey published by Editions Guérin) recounts an aspect of the guides profession – that of far flung adventures – through fifteen expeditions carried out across the globe. With their inimitable humour, they describe...

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Cervin : the Lion’s Ridge

An incredible journey up one of the world’s most iconic mountains, accompanied by an exceptional guide!  The Matterhorn is one of the most beautiful and well-known peaks in the world. On the Swiss side it is elegant, slender and harmonious, while on the Italian side it is majestic and imposing, and seems to have been carved with an axe. It is one of the most popular climbs in the...

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Aurélien Ducroz : une vie au sommet

This film is an intimate portrait of Aurélien Ducroz, a legendary skier from the Chamonix valley, who takes on the traverse of the Mont Blanc massif on skis, accompanied by friends who have marked his life. An introspective journey looking back on a brilliant career and concludes with the announcement of new ambitions on the oceans.

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