Les Carnets De L'Aventure

DocumentaryAction & Adventure

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...

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Season 1

4 Episodes

EP 01

EP 1

01.Glace Extrême

1977-01-01

01.Glace Extrême

Aired 1977-01-01

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.

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EP 02

02.Episode 2

49m

1981-12-27

02.Episode 2

49m

Aired 1981-12-27

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EP 03

03.Un Homme, Une Femme, Un 8000

1983-01-08

03.Un Homme, Une Femme, Un 8000

Aired 1983-01-08

Maurice Barrard and Liliane Bontemps met in 1973 in Peru. Four years later, they are married and start their life together in the Loire Valley. She is a physiotherapist, he is an educator. For them, although settled not far from Chartres, the mountains are never far away. Whenever the opportunity presents itself, they embark on high-altitude expeditions. First individually, then together. In 1982, they were at the top of Gasherbrum 2, an ascent filmed in this documentary prelude to other future ascents including the Nanga Parbat in 1984, after an aborted attempt a year earlier, which made Liliane Barrardi the first woman to climb this mountain. of the Karakoram. The "tallest couple in the world" will not stop there. After the Makalu in 1985, in the spring of 1986 they will attempt the ascent of K2 and its 8,611 meters... Un Homme, Une Femme, Un 8000 was broadcast in the program Les Carnets de L'Aventure in 1983.

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EP 4