Yannick Seigneur Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Yannick Seigneur
Acting
Biography
Yannick Seigneur, born May 24, 1941 in Paris and died November 28, 2001 in Passy (Haute-Savoie), is a mountaineer who has to his credit more than 500 route openings. Considered as one of the most brilliant guides of his generation, Yannick Seigneur is the first Frenchman to have recorded three “8000”. He is the father of four children: Loic, Yann-Éric, Adriane and Raphaëlle. He spent his first ten years between Paris, where his father di him worked as a mover, and Megève, where his farmer grandfather taught him to herd sheep. At the age of 10, his parents told him to return to Megève, without his being interested in mountaineering. At 18, he joined the INSA engineering school in Lyon, and graduated from him 5 years later. Sportsman, champion of France university of athletics in 1961, he discovered mountaineering thanks to some friends, including Jean-Paul Paris. In 1965, he was awarded a diploma in high mountain guides and settled in Chamonix. In his time, he was the best French mountaineer, competing with the Italian Reinhold Messner for the conquest of the fourteen "8000". Yannick Seigneur was the forerunner of alpine expeditions in the Himalayas, a climbing technique taken up by all the great mountaineers today. But by openly claiming to be a mountaineering professional who markets his exploits di him – via sponsorship, advertising, media coverage and films – Yannick Seigneur strongly offended his contemporaries di him, who criticized him for selling his soul tells him to the devil. He was rejected and ostracized by the mountain world, because he embodied a form of commodification of mountaineering for its own glory, a fact that had become commonplace in the world of mountaineering... Nevertheless, he opened the way to the “starization” of mountaineers in the 1980s, to individual exploits – speed, sequence of several summits – and to commercial expeditions of which he was also the precursor. Being too ahead of his time, di him, sometimes pays a heavy price. Yannick Seigneur was an iconoclastic mountaineer… Yannick Seigneur died of cancer on November 28, 2001 and was buried in the Chamonix cemetery.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Lyon Premier 8000, Au Gasherbrum II - 8035m
The "Lyon Premier 8000-Gasherbrum II 8035m" expedition, organized and led by Jean-Pierre Frésafond in 1975, was sponsored by the Lyon section of the Club Alpin Français and by Louis Pradel, Mayor of Lyon. The film traces the departure from Lyon of Berliet heavy trucks loaded with equipment, daily life in Pakistan, preparation for the expedition and the approach march with the porters, daily life at the base camp and in the camps. altitude of the members of the expedition: L. Audoubert, Marc Batard, F. Bourbousson, A. Chariglione, J. Dupraz, J.J. Forrat, H. and JP. Frésafond, B. Macho, Doctor A. Raymond, Y. Seigneur, J. Soubis, F. Valençot, B. Villaret de Chauvignypuis. Finally On June 18, 1975, Yannick Seigneur and Marc Batard reached the summit by opening a route along the south ridge. Bernard Villaret de Chauvigny, who was killed during the second assault, was the first victim of the Gasherbrum.
Nanga Parbat 80, La revanche de futur
Berhault
Paragot-Bérardini, La Cordée des Voyous
Paragot and Bérardini: two climbers who fill all climbing enthusiasts with admiration. In Fontainebleau, Saussois, the Alps, the Andes, the Himalayas, and all over the world, they have left their names attached to the most difficult routes and the most prestigious peaks. Here, they recount only the climbs they completed together: famous expeditions to Aconcagua and Huascarán, firsts in the Alps and the Dolomites. An unwavering friendship, comical and tragic adventures—this is what they share with us in the warm atmosphere of their memories. "La Cordée des Voyous" will be included in Jean Afanassieff's film "La Grande Cordée," which deals with post-war proletarian mountaineering.
K2 La Montagne Inachevée
Aventure à Bleau
Adventure in Bleau is a documentary about bouldering that takes place in Fontainebleau. Directed by Jean-Paul Janssen in 1980 and produced by Antenne 2, it is part of the series "Les Carnets de l'Aventure" and broadcast on the same television channel. It features different generations of the finest free climbing artists of the time: Patrick Edlinger, Catherine Destivelle, Lucien Bérardini, Jean Pierre Bouvier, and Bertrand Roche 'Zébulon'.
Because The Mountain Was There
On May 23, 1971, a French expedition led by Robert Paragot successfully climbed Makalu via its west pillar. Makalu is one of the five highest peaks in the world, located in the Himalayas on the Nepalese-Tibetan border. Jean-Pierre Janssen and Lucien Bérardini filmed this expedition, where Robert Paragot spoke about the expedition conditions, life at altitude, and his state of mind as expedition leader. On the return to base camp, Jean-Pierre Janssen interviewed Lucien Berardini, Georges Payot, Jean-Claude Mosca, François Guillot, and Jean-Paul Paris, all of whom played a key role in bringing Bernard Mellet and Yannick Seigneur to the summit. Expedition members: Robert Paragot (expedition leader), Georges Payot, Yannick Seigneur, Claude Jager, Jean-Claude Mosca, François Guillot, Bernard Mellet, Lucien Bérardini, Jean-Paul Paris, Robert Jacob, Jacques Marchal (surgeon).
Makalu 8481m - West Pillar
The French Alpine Club's film about the French expedition to conquer Makalu (8481m) via the west pillar in Nepal, which began on February 24, 1971. Composed of 11 mountaineers, Robert Paragot (expedition leader), Georges Payot, Lucien Berardini, Yannick Seigneur, Claude Jager, Jean-Paul Paris, Jean-Claude Mosca, François Guillot, Bernard Mellet, Robert Jacob and Jacques Marchal (surgeon), it took twenty-five days of walking on the Himalayan trails with 460 porters and 18 Sherpas to transport 14 tons of equipment to reach the base camp. Finally, it was Mellet and Seigneur who managed to reach the summit on May 23, 1971: 8481 m, temperature - 30°, oxygen 30%, no wind.
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