Everest Turbo - La Tentation

01/01/1989

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0hr 26min

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Documentary

STORY

Less than two years after his serious road accident, Eric Escoffier brought together the "Turbo" team (Frédéric Ancey, Michel Fauquet, Christine Janin and Stéphane Schaffter) with whom he will attempt to climb Everest without oxygen and without prior acclimatization in the Himalayas, the project being to complete the Paris-Everest-Paris loop in two weeks. It is also a medical experiment: the athletes spend a week at Mont Blanc, at the Vallot observatory between 4000 and 4800m, then a week in a hypobaric chamber in Grenoble. Doctors (Dr. Richalet, Herry and Bittel) perform tests throughout this training, which will learn about how the body acclimatizes to altitude and allow applications in the management of mountain-related illnesses . On September 2, 1989, they arrived at Everest base camp in China. They attempted the ascent via the North Col but could not carry out their project, prevented by bad weather.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Eric Escoffier
  • Christine Janin
  • Frédéric Ancey
  • Michel Fauquet
  • Stéphane Schaffter

    Director

  • Bernard Germain

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • MC4
  • CNC

    Production Countries

  • France

LANGUAGES

  • French