TV8 Mont-Blanc

Through the testimony of great mountaineers and Himalayans and the views of journalists, historians and Himalayans on the way to an attempt to open a new path to Amnye Machen (Tibet), the author tries to find an explanation for the desire to go 'up there' when there is a risk of not returning. With the testimonies of: Jean-Michel Asselin, Christine Janin, François Damilano, Pierre Mazeaud, Jean-Christophe Lafaille, Patrick Berhault, Reinhold Messner, Bertrand Roche dit Zébulon, Katia Buffetrille, Elizabeth Hawley, Junko Tabei, Sylvie Braud, Kurt Diemberger.

Portrait of french climber Guido Magnone. Originally born in Italy, Magnone arrives in France at the age of three. After studying art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he discovered the mountain and quickly became one of the best climbers of his generation. He made prestigious conquests such as the western face of the Drus in the Alps, the first climbs of Fitz Roy in Patagonia with Lionel Terray or Makalu in the Himalayas. He also undertakes many expeditions in the Caucasus, the Rockies ... Magnone also participated in the creation of UCPA (Union des Centres Sportifs de Plein Air)and was president of the Groupe de Haute Montagne from 1961 to 1965.

French mountaineering after the war underwent great renewal. In contrast to aristocratic mountaineering with personalities like Henri de Ségogne, and professional mountaineering with guides as the emblematic figures, a new form of amateur mountaineering developed from the Parisian working classes: 'cheeky' mountaineering. The Robert Paragot-Lucien Bérardini team is the most striking illustration of this. Insolent, iconoclastic, anticonformist, they symbolise the post-war climbers from modest backgrounds who, caring nothing for conventions and rules, upset the stereotypes of the 'perfect mountaineer'.