Les Parois de la Mémoire - Le Pilier Central du Frêney

Les Parois de la Mémoire – Le Pilier Central du Frêney is a 25-minute documentary film directed by Jérôme Equer in 1994 and broadcast on the FR3 weekly program Montagne. The film highlights the tragic story of the July 1961 attempt to climb the Frêney Central Pillar (on the Italian side of Mont Blanc), during which a Franco-Italian team—led notably by Pierre Mazeaud and Walter Bonatti—was trapped by a violent, multi-day storm of exceptional intensity, resulting in a tragic retreat and the deaths of four of the seven climbers. It draws on archival footage, excerpts from Lothar Brandler’s film Inferno am Montblanc, and firsthand accounts from the participants, including mountaineer and politician Pierre Mazeaud.

Cast

Pierre Mazeaud Self René Desmaison Self Walter Bonatti Self (archive footage)

Roberto Gallieni Self (archive footage)

Pierre Kohlmann Self (archive footage)

Andrea Oggioni Self (archive footage)

Robert Guillaume Self (archive footage)

Antoine Vieille Self (archive footage)

Louis Janin Self

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