Les Carnets De L'Aventure

Released: 1977-01-01

Runtime: None minutes

Episode Overview

Glace Extrême is a documentary about alpinism,extreme ski that takes place in Aiguille Verte and Grand Pilier D'angle in Chamonix, France with the legendary Jean-Marc Boivin, Patrick Gabarrou and Patrick Vallençant. It was directed by Jean-Marc Boivin himself in 1977.

Series Overview

Les Carnets de l'Aventure is a cult French television program of adventure and extreme sports documentaries broadcast on Saturday afternoons on Antenne 2 (France 2) between 1980 and 1989. At the beginning of the 80s, in full transformation of mountain activities into high level sports, Les Carnets de L'Aventure revealed from to the country that invented alpinism to the whole world the "French-Touch" of these talents of the new approach to the mountains and its new disciplines. Patrick Edlinger and solo free climbing with the film La Vie au Bout des Doigts, directed by Jean-Paul Janssen in 1982. But also his brother in arms Patrick Berhault, Christophe Profit in the solo ascent of Les Drus, the trilogies of Jean-Marc Boivin in hang-gliding, the Himalayan expoits of Marc Batard but also those of Patrick Gabarrou, opener of routes in the Alps and elsewhere, Patrick Vallencant and his extreme skiing, Paul-Émile Victor and many others...