A legend who cheated death, then vanished into legend.
Meeting in Chamonix with Éric Escoffier, famous mountaineer of the 80s, victim of a car accident in September 1987. Victim of multiple fractures and total paralysis on his left side, Escoffier managed to walk again, despite the doctors' pessimistic prognoses... The commentary on images of Éric Escoffier in his daily life in Chamonix and archive images and photographs alternates with archive documents, extracts from the films "Profession grimpeur" by Philippe Lallet and "Face nord" by Jean Afanassieff as well as interviews with the protagonist, Rémi Éric Escoffier and Michel Garcia. Great among the greatest, Éric Escoffier, who disappeared in the mountains at Broad Peak on July 29, 1998, will never have been an ordinary man.
Editing
Archive footage cuts like memory itself—fragmented, aching.
Direction
Beccu lets silence do the screaming.
Director
Pierre Beccu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Escoffier filmed 'Face nord' just three years before his paralyzing car accident—the same body, two different fates.
The 1987 crash happened between his climbing prime and his mysterious 1998 disappearance; this documentary captures the only 'ordinary' chapter of a life defined by extremes.
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