Nanda Devi
Movie - 61mins
In 1975, Raymond Renaud, Yves Pollet-Villard, Maurice Gicquel, Maurice Cretton, Jean Coudray, Yvon Masino, Walter Cecchinel, all teacher guides at ENSA in Chamonix, with the help of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation, set out to cross the 2 peaks of the highest mountain in India. After 43 hours in a truck, 10 days of slow and difficult approach walking, helped by goats for the portage due to lack of sherpas, the base camp is set up on the Nanda Devi glacier. Two groups share the two eastern and western slopes, 3 kilometers separate them: the goal being to meet between the two summits by the ridge. But on the big day, with the monsoon, bad weather arrives with wind and snow, we will have to give up. Like the French expedition of 1951 which lost two mountaineers, Roger Duplat and Gilbert Vigne, to whom Paul Gendre and Louis Dubosc pay tribute.
Cast:
Yvon
Masino
Prem
Chand
Jean-Claude
Odin
Gilbert
Vignes
Roger
Duplat
Raymond
Renaud
Maurice
Gicquel
Yves
Pollet-Villard
Jean
'Nano'
Walter
Cecchinel
Maurice
Cretton
Alok
Chandola
Balwant
Singh
Charles
Duboise
Christian
Brincourt
Devinder
Jeet
Jean
Grégoire
Dorjee
Lhatoo
Yvon
Masino
Prem
Chand
Jean-Claude
Odin
Gilbert
Vignes
Roger
Duplat
Raymond
Renaud
Maurice
Gicquel
Yves
Pollet-Villard
Jean
'Nano'
Walter
Cecchinel