The film shows Catherine Destivelle's trip to Dogon Country, in Mali, where she will make spectacular free solo rock climbing ascents in the sun-warmed cliffs of Bandiagara. Destivelle is accompanied on this trip by a friend climber, Lucien Abbet. A film by Pierre-Antoine Hiroz produced in 1987 by Paradoxe and also featuring Tidjani Koné, Ibrahim Dolo, and the Dogon inhabitants of the Bandiagara Escarpment. The film won the Genziana D'argento for best free climbing film at the Trento Film Festival in 1987.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Paradoxe Productions
Keywords
- africa
- free climbing
- mali
- escalade
- mountain documentary
- french climbers
- solo climbing
- catherine destivelle
- goat climber
- arrampicata
- bandiagara
- dogon
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Top Cast
Catherine Destivelle as Self
Lucien Abbet as Self
Tidiani Koné as Self
Ibrahim Dolo as Self
Top Crew
Pierre-Antoine Hiroz · Director, Writer
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