The Gimp Monkeys (2012)
Gênero : Documentário, Aventura
Runtime : 9M
Director : Fitz Cahall, Mikey Schaefer
Sinopse
What has four legs, five arms and three heads? The Gimp Monkeys. Craig DeMartino lost his leg after a 100-foot climbing fall. Pete Davis with born without an arm. Bone cancer claimed Jarem Frye's left leg at the age of 14. While the three are linked by what they are missing, it is their shared passion for climbing that pushed them towards an improbable goal - the first all-disabled ascent of Yosemite's iconic El Capitan.
A four armed chef goes about his day.
This film by Yannick Bacher tells the passion of brothers Frédéric and François Nicole for climbing. Through the sites of Cuzzago (Italy), Zurich, Murg, Pelzli, Montreux, St-Loup, Yverdon-les-Bains, Saint-Triphon or Erde, we learn to know these 2 living legends better, their life choices, their philosophy... United by blood ties, those of fraternity but also by the same passion, that of the rock, of climbing. Fred made climbing history by pushing back the difficulty ladder in the discipline of bouldering. François him, founded a family and carried out a parallel professional career. But both have never stopped exploring, traveling and climbing.
Directed by Jean-Marc Boivin in 1977, Glace Extrême is a documentary about mountaineering and extreme skiing at the Aiguille Verte and the Grand Pilier D'angle in the Mont-Blanc massif chain in France, with the legends of mountaineering Jean-Marc Boivin, Patrick Gabarrou and ski champion Patrick Vallencant. It was broadcast in the Carnet de L'Aventure on France 2 in 1980.
Jean-Marc Boivin had chosen the natural elements as his playground. In his quest for extremes and discoveries. By turns mountaineer, skier, hang-glider, explorer, paraglider, sailor, speleologist or base-jumper, he loved constantly exploring “terra incognita” and playing with the limits of the possible. His "career" - the word is so weak - Jean-Marc, one day, agreed to tell the strongest moments to his father who recorded everything: happiness, doubts, emotions and difficulties. In this film, which won the Human Adventure Prize at the Saint Hilaire du Touvet Free Flight Film Festival, it is Jean-Marc who himself “comments” on some of his most spectacular feats. Confronted with period documents, Jean-Marc's voice-over sheds new and moving light on the extraordinary personality of a man who once admitted "having lived all his dreams"...
It is 1 p.m. on June 30, 1982, when Christophe Profit, 24, shows up at the foot of Les Drus with his pof bag, his climbing shoes and nothing else. He will try the west face of Les Drus in "solo", in the Mont Blanc massif by "Directe Américaine", 1100 meters of vertical and smooth rock. Christophe will achieve the feat of climbing the wall in free solo, without using a rope or any belaying technique. At 4:10 p.m., barely more than three hours after the start of his ascent, the new climbing star can embrace the Virgin of the Drus at the same time as the career of a high-level mountaineer. Three years later, on July 25, 1985, he climbed the north faces of the Matterhorn, the Eiger and the Jorasses in the same day. Awarded at many mountain film festivals, this great documentary is a magnificent testimony to one man's passion for climbing, the mountains and adventure.
Signs For Change is a documentary which will see actress and Strictly Come Dancing 2021 winner Rose Ayling-Ellis reveal the daily challenges, discrimination and barriers which are faced by deaf individuals, coming 2023 to BBC.
While shooting Gerard Mordillat's film, "Billy ze Kick", Christophe Profit, one of the best climbers in the world, was asked to stand in for an actor. He will, without ropes or belay, climb the smooth side of a 60 meter building.
In July 1956, together with the mountaineer Gaston Rébuffat, the actor and cellist Maurice Baquet made the first ascent of the south face of the Aiguille du Midi (3,842 m/12,606 ft), a magnificent wall of red granite soaring up like a rampart above the Vallée Blanche (the White Valley) in the Mont-Blanc Massif. Thirty-two years later, as if to pay tribute to the memory of his friend Gaston, now deceased, Maurice Baquet once again climbed this mighty crag, suspended between sky and earth, behind Christophe Profit.
Born into aristocracy, Toulouse-Lautrec moves to Paris to pursue his art as he hangs out at the Moulin Rouge where he feels like he fits in being a misfit among other misfits. Yet, because of the deformity of his legs from an accident, he believes he is never destined to experience the true love of a woman. But that lack of love in his life may change as he meets two women
Traumatizado com um acidente que resultou na morte de uma amiga, o experiente alpinista Gabe Walker (Sylvester Stallone) se afastou das montanhas. Um ano após o acontecido, no entanto, ele é chamado para resgatar um grupo em apuros nas Montanhas Rochosas. A missão, porém, logo revela-se uma armadilha: Gabe está lá na verdade para guiar o bando de perigosos terroristas até um tesouro perdido.
Depois de desistir de estudar oratória na faculdade por causa de um confronto com um de seus ídolos, Richard Pimentel entra para o Exército e luta no Vietnã. Durante seu tempo de serviço, Richard perde praticamente toda a sua audição. Com um novo círculo de amigos, o soldado descobre seu talento para palestrante motivacional e se transforma em um defensor dos deficientes.
Phroso é um bem-sucedido mágico de espetáculos casado com Anna, mulher que também é objeto de desejo de outro homem, o comerciante de marfim Crane. Quando Anne deixa Phroso para ficar com Crane, começam as tragédias. Numa briga com Crane, Phroso fica paralítico. Alguns meses depois, Anna já não está com o amante e morre deixando uma criança. Com sua vida destruída, Phroso jura vingança contra o homem que tomou sua esposa e lhe deixou paralítico, e parte para África. Dezoito anos depois, ele se tornou o líder de uma tribo africana, parte de seu plano para liquidar Crane. No meio de tanto ódio, a criança, agora uma mulher, se tornou uma prostituta alcoólatra em Zanzibar. Phroso segue com sua vingança, mas a situação foge de seu controle e as tragédias atingem a todos.
Six schoolmates, after their final exams, decide to go together on holiday in the Dolomites, in what will probably be their last summer together before taking different ways. In that time they will learn to know themselves and others better, facing and trying to overcome their fears.