The Drus are two peaks of a mountain located in the Mont-Blanc massif. Yesterday, only the major players in international mountaineering could court its West face. Even today, any attempt is necessarily a long-term journey, with no certainty of success. For half a century, the Drus have contained a summary of the history of modern mountaineering. During the winter of 2004, three climbers of the latest generation, Guillaume Avrisiani, Philippe Batoux and Christophe Dumarest ventured into the Lafaille route, the most modern of the routes traced in the face. The three lovers immerse themselves in the heart of the cathedral of the Mont-Blanc massif for a journey through history. Based on numerous filmed archives and testimonies from Guido Magnone, Catherine Destivelle, and Christophe Profit, director Bertrand Delapierre retraces the history of this mythical mountain.

Les Amants des Drus

Riccardo Cassin, 100 Anni - Un secolo di alpinismo passato alla storia

A dynamic young French duo pay tribute to Italian mountaineering icon Walter Bonatti by climbing - in succession - three routes he opened up in the Mont Blanc region.

La Voie Bonatti

Walter Bonatti is THE mountaineering legend, capable of meeting the great challenges of mountaineering: K2, Drus, G4, Matterhorn, to name a few. But the summits reached are not points of arrival, they are intermediate stages which then push him on a journey around the world, in search of himself. His exploration, starting from the vertical walls, then moved towards horizontal paths and was always expressed towards the interior space where our fears and our desires reside. Where the man, sitting alone in front of himself, must decide to surpass himself or to adapt. And Walter never complied with them, he wrote his own rules and followed them all his life, allowing himself no loopholes or shortcuts. He built himself as a mountaineer, as an explorer, as a photojournalist and as a writer, but always and only with the intention of being an uncompromising man with his hands, his muscles, his heart and his head.

Walter Bonatti, King of the Alps

Pierre Mazeau has managed to unite three of his passions which seem to have nothing in common, at a very high level: mountaineering, jurisprudence and policy. The Everest mountaineer, rescued from the Freney Pillar, the passionate jurist, the former sports minister, privy counsellor, and president of the French Constitutional Court is a charismatic personality. This sensitive film portrait follows a line, which Pierre Mazeaud himself has quoted: “Alpinism belongs to those who provide themselves with means to reach their goals, to those who are fully committed to a goal, to those, who know the value of solidarity of men, and to those who are aware that true human existence can only be fulfilled by proceeding with a team of roped-partners.”