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The Conqueror Of The Useless (1966)

The Conqueror Of The Useless (1966)

Documentary
Release Date: 1966, December 23
Directors: Marcel Ichac
Countries: France
Production: Filmartic
Cast: Lionel Terray, Guido Magnone, Maurice Herzog, Louis Lachenal, René Ferlet, Suzanne Thiollière, Marianne Terray, Bill Dunaway

Overview:

Biography of ski instructor, mountain guide, mountaineer and filmmaker-lecturer Lionel Terray. Film-portrait of an emblematic figure of French mountaineering in the 1950s and 1960s, reconstructing the life, the great races and the expeditions of the "conqueror" of the most difficult walls and summits of Europe, the Himalayas, the Andes and North America. Marcel Ichac produced in 1966, the day after the Gerbier accident, this illustrated tribute by bringing together personal archive documents, unpublished animated sequences or extracts from expedition images as well as comments taken from the autobiographical texts of Lionel Terray " The Conquerors of the Useless" and "Battle for Jannu". This film, presented at the Cannes Film Festival, has won numerous awards at specialized film festivals, including the Trente Festival and the Banff Festival.

Keywords:

himalaya mountain range mountaineering patagonia, argentina alpinism chamonix escalade alpes annapurna lionel terray