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Namche Bazar, the capital of Khumbu in Nepal, is a major trading hub between Lhasa and the Indian Ocean, a world of tradition and trade. Catherine Destivelle and Erik Decamp come during the monsoon season to climb a spectacular waterfall of ice in the Khumbu Valley, on the Nepali side of Everest. The Ice Wall is constantly changing and could collapse or trigger an avalanche of ice at any time. The climbers begin to climb it as the snow begins to fall... A film by Pierre-Antoine Hiroz produced in 1997 by Les Films d'Ici.

Mount Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps, is 4810 m high and was climbed for the first time on August 8th, 1786. The climbers, Jacques Balmat and Michel Paccard, left in the afternoon on 7th August and returned victorious in the morning of 9th having spent two nights in the open. The film is a dramatization that reconstructs this great event with all the problems it entailed and solved thus contributing to the beginning of the modern concept of alpinism. Denis Ducroz, guide and filmmaker, plunges us into the spirit and the environment of these two men, 224 years after.

In 1952 Raymond Lambert and Tensing Norgay reach a height of about 8,595 metres (28,199 ft) on the southeast ridge of Mount Everest, setting a new climbing altitude record, opening up a new route to Mount Everest and paving the way for further successes by other expeditions. 50 years later, in 2002, Yves Lambert, the son of Raymond Lambert, and Tashi Tensing, the grandson of Tensing Norgay, reach the summit of Everest in a commemorative expedition organized by Stéphane Schaffter.