Yann Estienne

Through the confidences of Michel Serres, renowned philosopher and unknown mountain climber, and also stories of climbers and mountaineers, we enter to a vertical world, unconventional, where the hostility of the high altitude and the passion of men coexist. What is the sense of mountaineering? Between philosophy, action, and self-discovery, the documentary takes us very far, to the very heart of mountaineering and asks the question that every climber will ask himself one day: Why climbing up there? This film proposes to answer these questions while following two ropes on an emblematic summit of the Alps, the Meije (3984 m) in the heart of the Ecrins National Park.

Darwin, la cordillère secrète is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in Cordillera Darwin. It was directed by Nicolas Pierre Morin in 2010 and produced by Big Nose. It features Pascal Arpin, Thomas Baratier, Matthieu Carihian, Guillermo Cratchley, Yann Estienne, Yvan Estienne and others.