Hervé Barmasse

On the 19th of August 1573, Francesco de Marchi climbed the impervious and rocky peak of the Corno Grande, the highest mountain of the Italian Appennin range, accomplishing an epic feat for his time: reaching a peak out of curiosity. He wrote his Chronicle anticipating by 213 years the ascent of Mont Blanc accomplished by Balmat and Paccard on 8 August 1786. 450 years after the feat, the film recounts the climb, narrated by Francesco De Marchi's own words, with spectacular images of the climb among the calcareous rocks of the Corno Grande.

In North Horr, in northwest Kenya, Hervé Barmasse—a mountaineer and communicator—traverses a land where the climate crisis and water scarcity are reshaping every balance. The journey recounts the lives of pastoral communities, the vital bond with their animals, and an increasingly fragile environment, where human health and survival are challenged daily. A real and authentic perspective, it also becomes an act of giving back to these arid lands and the people who inhabit them, where Amref Health Africa works every day to bring health and hope.

People experience adventures on mountains all around the world. Personalities, fascinated by the world of the mountains, bring us closer to the freedom many people experience in such breezy hights.