Marcel Ichac accompanied the mountaineer Armand Charlet, in 1943, in the repetition of the first crossing of the Aiguilles du Diable that the guide of the Chamonix valley had made in 1925. A roped party joined on snow and ice the Col du Géant, reached at the Mont-Blanc-du-Tacul stop and on the Col du Diable. The men cross the needles by climbing chimneys, cracks and abseiling walls. They access the eastern slope of the Mont-Blanc massif which offers a panorama of the Grandes Jorasses and Mont-Blanc. Armand Charlet was the first to reach the summits of four needles above 4000 meters: the Devil's Horn, Pointe Chaubert, Pointe Médiane and Pointe Carmen; he also tells how he successfully climbed the furthest, the Isolated. Marcel Ichac shot these scenes as close as possible to his subject, he responded with this film with a “truth” cinema, the principle of which we find in his later productions.
Release Date: January 01, 1943
April 07, 2011
January 30, 2017
February 20, 1998
March 22, 2011
January 01, 1980
January 01, 1959
January 01, 1986
March 31, 2013
January 01, 1957
January 01, 1966
May 31, 1979
May 01, 1992
January 01, 1997
January 01, 2017
November 26, 2018
October 02, 2018
January 02, 1978
July 07, 2020
April 05, 1970
October 14, 2019