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Éric Escoffier - Portrait of a Man Who Became Ordinary (1994)

Éric Escoffier - Portrait of a Man Who Became Ordinary (1994)

Documentary
Release Date: 1994, June 25
Directors: Pierre Beccu
Countries: France
Production: France 3
Cast: Eric Escoffier, Stéphane Schaffter, Michel Garcia

Overview:

Meeting in Chamonix with Éric Escoffier, famous mountaineer of the 80s, victim of a car accident in September 1987. Victim of multiple fractures and total paralysis on his left side, Escoffier managed to walk again, despite the doctors' pessimistic prognoses... The commentary on images of Éric Escoffier in his daily life in Chamonix and archive images and photographs alternates with archive documents, extracts from the films "Profession grimpeur" by Philippe Lallet and "Face nord" by Jean Afanassieff as well as interviews with the protagonist, Rémi Éric Escoffier and Michel Garcia. Great among the greatest, Éric Escoffier, who disappeared in the mountains at Broad Peak on July 29, 1998, will never have been an ordinary man.

Keywords:

free climbing mountaineering alpinism escalade eric escoffier portrait of a climber