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- Roger Frison-Roche born in Paris in 1906 and moved to Chamonix at the age of 17. He was quickly adopted by local mountaineers and became the first guide in the Company not to have been born in the valley. He is also an insatiable explorer, in love with landscapes and peoples, having traveled from the Hoggar to the Sami camps in Lapland. And the author, among others, of the famous adventure novel Premier de Cordée. This documentary, made up of archive images and interviews, exposes the prolific life of a man who communicated his passion for the mountains by all possible means. A young journalist from Chamonix follows in the footsteps of Roger Frison-Roche. She meets people who knew him and others who followed in his footsteps: guides, filmmaker and author Philippe Claudel, a director, his family; on a trip to Lapland, Algeria and Chamonix.
- In February 1966, Pierre Mazeaud and Lucien Berardini attempted a difficult first ascent to one of the summits of Garet El Djenoun, in the Hoggar massif, a mountain range located west of the Sahara, in southern Algeria. The mountain has remained untouched since Roger Frison-Roche's expedition in 1935. The documentary, superbly filmed by René Vernadet, won the Grand Prix at the Trento Film Festival in 1996.
- Oversand is one of the first films on free climbing, the third film in a series of three with "Overdon" in the Verdon, and "Over-Ice" in the icefalls of Oisans. Directed by Jean-Paul Janssen with French-speaking "climbing aces" of the time: Patrick Edlinger, Patrick Bérhault, Bernard Gorgeon, Hugues Jaillet, Jacques Perrier, Stéphane Troussier and Odette Schoënleb. The film, very visual and without dialogue, is shot in 35mm in Algeria, in the Sahara desert, in the region of Tamanrasset, in the parishes of the mountains of the Hoggar massif, under the eye of Tuareg caravans.