Annapurna

Annapurna

56 mins | Documentary | May 5, 1953

This documentary was released in France 1953 only 8 weeks before Tenzing and Hillary conquered Mount Everest. The first 8,000 m peak to be climbed was the Annapurna I, three years earlier in 1950, by a French expedition including Maurice Herzog, Lionel Terray, Gaston Rébuffat, Jean Crouzy, Marcel Schutz, Jacques Oudot, Francis de Noyelle an cinematographer Marcel Ichac, the only one who had already an Himalayan experience (see 'Karakoram', film of 1936 awarded at Venice Film Festival in 1938). It's an epic adventure filmed in difficult conditions by an expert of mountain film and which ended in an anticlimax of disasters and injuries.

Annapurna

56 mins | Documentary | May 5, 1953

Annapurna
This documentary was released in France 1953 only 8 weeks before Tenzing and Hillary conquered Mount Everest. The first 8,000 m peak to be climbed was the Annapurna I, three years earlier in 1950, by a French expedition including Maurice Herzog, Lionel Terray, Gaston Rébuffat, Jean Crouzy, Marcel Schutz, Jacques Oudot, Francis de Noyelle an cinematographer Marcel Ichac, the only one who had already an Himalayan experience (see 'Karakoram', film of 1936 awarded at Venice Film Festival in 1938). It's an epic adventure filmed in difficult conditions by an expert of mountain film and which ended in an anticlimax of disasters and injuries.
Producers Expédition Française à l'Himalaya
Original title Victoire sur l'Annapurna
Directors Marcel Ichac
Writers

Cast

Jean Couzy

as Jean Couzy

Marcel Ichac

as Marcel Ichac, Narrateur

Maurice Herzog

as Maurice Herzog, Narrateur

Francis de Noyelle

as Francis de Noyelle

Louis Lachenal

as Louis Lachenal

Jacques Oudot

as Jacques Oudot

Gaston Rébuffat

as Gaston Rébuffat

Marcel Schatz

as Marcel Schatz

Lionel Terray

as Lionel Terray