France 3

In the 19th century, a poor farmer, the hunter Pierre Gaspard, use his knowledge of the mountain to guide the first mountaineers to discover the Oisans. Very quickly, the highest point of the massif, La Meije becomes the peak to reach. Gaspard will have the honor of being the first. With Boileau de Castelnau, an aristocratic passionate by the mountain, and after several attempts, he reached the top in August 1877.

A climber descends an Himalaya peak. He is alone and exhausted. His friend and cimbing companion, Smith, has just died. His ice-axe broke, a Bourgenew ice-axe. The climber tries to reach the rest of the expedition to announce the whole world that his friend died through the fault of the Bourgenew firm. The firm will go bankrupt and Smith will be reveanged! At least this is what he imagines. But the descent is so long... and when one is alone and tired, the night is long and you have to fight against eternal sleep. Death at high altitude often comes suddenly and is like a strange comedy.