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- Third most visited natural site in the world after Niagara Falls and Mount Fuji, the Mont-Blanc massif fascinates. Cradle of world mountaineering, land of adventure for the pioneers of climbing and skiing, giant laboratory for scientists, inspiring muse for writers and painters, land of extraordinary technological conquests, the "Roof of Europe" is both a place of spectacle and a place of conquest. At its feet, the Chamonix valley, "the daughter of Mont-Blanc", has an astonishing history, sometimes captivating, always unique. This film is the story of a "conquest". Told over more than three centuries, this documentary aims to tell the crazy story of a small mountain village, isolated, even secret, where in the year 1000, man confronts an oversized monster of ice and stones.
- Georges Livanos, nicknamed the Greek but pure child of Marseille, amateur mountaineer, opened more than 500 routes in the Calanques, 40 in the Dolomites, and repeated many of the greatest routes in the Alps in the company of the best climbers of his time, d friends, and especially his wife Sonia. He is also the author of the classic "Au-Delà De La Verticale". This report follows for a day the legend, 71 years old now, of his apartment in the Marseille city in the Calanques. As a true Provençal, he speaks without filter of the exploits that made him famous, gives his opinion on modern climbing and on life in general: the portrait of a great climber and above all of a fascinating character with a sense of humor sharp.
- The American mountaineer Gary Hemming marked the era of the 1960s. The story of this "exceptional" character is intimately linked to that of the rescue of the two German mountaineers on the west face of the Drus, in 1966, a rescue which he had took the initiative. While the official emergency services of the EHM try to reach them from above, a pirate rope made up of Gary Hemming, René Desmaison, Lothar Mauch, Gil Bodin, Mike Brurke, François Guillot, the filmmaker Gérard Bauer organizes to join them from below and succeeded after a fierce struggle the rescue. The press seizes the event and elevates Gary Hemming to the rank of national hero. All the newspapers appear on the front page of this tall guy with a cool attitude, mismatched clothes, jovial smile and long blond hair. From then on, on the nickname: "the beatnik of the peaks".