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Les Parois de la Mémoire - Le Pilier Central du Frêney (1994)

Les Parois de la Mémoire - Le Pilier Central du Frêney (1994)

Drama Documentary
Release Date: 1994, November 1
Directors: Jérôme Equer
Countries: France, Italy
Production: FR3, RAI, Dream Time Movies
Cast: Robert Guillaume, Walter Bonatti, René Desmaison, Pierre Mazeaud, Pierre Kohlmann, Antoine Vieille, Andrea Oggioni, Roberto Gallieni, Louis Janin

Overview:

Les Parois de la Mémoire – Le Pilier Central du Frêney is a 25-minute documentary film directed by Jérôme Equer in 1994 and broadcast on the FR3 weekly program Montagne. The film highlights the tragic story of the July 1961 attempt to climb the Frêney Central Pillar (on the Italian side of Mont Blanc), during which a Franco-Italian team—led notably by Pierre Mazeaud and Walter Bonatti—was trapped by a violent, multi-day storm of exceptional intensity, resulting in a tragic retreat and the deaths of four of the seven climbers. It draws on archival footage, excerpts from Lothar Brandler’s film Inferno am Montblanc, and firsthand accounts from the participants, including mountaineer and politician Pierre Mazeaud.

Keywords:

alpinism mont-blanc mountains range mountain history mountain accident mountaineering documentary drame du frêney 1961