Everest 78, or the French on top of the world (movie)
Everest 78, ou les Français sur le toit du monde- User score: 10
- Production country: France
- Producer: Christian Brincourt , Jean-Claude Odin
- Production companies: TF1
- Genre: Documentary, Adventure
- Release date: 10/15/1978
- Run time: 91 min.
Movie description
It was a sporting feat, a national feat, but also and above all a technical feat: on October 15, 1978, three French mountaineers, for the first time, reached the summit of Everest: Pierre Mazeaud, Nicolas Jaeger, Jean Afanassieff, accompanied by Kurt Diemberger, Austrian mountaineer and cameraman A performance broadcast live on the radio thanks to the France inter teams and filmed for television by TF1. Christian Brincourt, a great French reporter, tells us about this expedition and questions the members of the expedition on their motivations. With Pierre Mazeaud (expedition leader), Jean-François Mazeaud (doctor), Claude Deck, Raymond Despiau, Nicolas Jaeger, Walter Cecchinel, Jean Afanassieff, Kurt Diemberger.
