Christophe Dumarest

Le Vercors sur un plateau is a documentary about rock climbing that takes place in Glandasse and Cirque D'archiane. It was directed by Christophe Dumarest in 2012. It features Christophe Dumarest and Yann Borgnet.

Terray. This name sounds like a challenge and evokes deep respect in each mountaineer’s memory. To everybody Lionel Terray will forever be the 'Conqueror of the useless', an example of a generous and mature mountaineer, far from egocentrism or ambition. Not only a pioneer and witness of mountaineering history, Terray is also remembered as a man and master more than an athlete. Forty years after the tragic death of this extraordinary mountaineer and guide, who loved to consider himself just 'a simple mountain dweller', his old friends and the youngest generation of mountaineers get together in this film to celebrate and remember his heritage.

In the autumn of 2008, from the village of La Grave, Aymeric Clouet and Christophe Dumarest decide to follow the climb of eight North faces of the Massif des Ecrins on an imaginary route from north to south, which they call Le Méridien des Écrins. More than 12 days running along the steep ridges, the steep couloirs, and the vertiginous walls of this sumptuous massif lead them to the brink of exhaustion and allow us to discover their personalities, their vision of the mountain, their sensitivity, and to understand how an effective rope team often compared to the legendary Lachenal-Terray works.

In October 2010, two of France’s finest mountaineers, Christophe Dumarest and Yann Borgnet, fulfilled a mountaineering dream: a back-to-back Alpine-style climb of some of Walter Bonatti’s great routes through the Mont Blanc massif. Dumarest and Borgnet first climbed the north face of the Grandes Jorasses; they then went on to scale the Grand Capucin and the Red Pillar of Brouillard, completing their feat by climbing Mont Blanc. Their descent by paraglider to Chamonix rounded off their achievement with a touch of style. This documentary captures Dumarest and Borgnet on their six-day journey, which they went about cheerfully, calmly and humbly.