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Gil Bodin

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Gil Bodin

Born January 1, 1939 · Parçay-Meslay, Indre-et-Loire, France

Died October 7, 2019 · aged 80

Gil Bodin, born January 1, 1939, in Parçay-Meslay (Indre-et-Loire) and died October 7, 2019, in Bron, in the Lyon metropolitan area, was a French mountaineer and mountain guide. He was one of those mountain figures whose eloquence took us back to the epics of the 1960s. Originally from Indre-et-Loire, it was during his teenage years in Paris that Gil Bodin discovered the joys of vertical climbing…

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Gary Hemming, le beatnik des cimesGary Hemming, le beatnik des cimes · 1996
Gary Hemming, le beatnik des cimes
★ 10.01996
MovieDocumentary
The American mountaineer Gary Hemming marked the era of the 1960s. The story of this "exceptional" character is intimately linked to that of the rescue of the two German mountaineers on the west face of the Drus, in 1966, a rescue which he had took the initiative. While the official emergency services of the EHM try to reach them from above, a pirate rope made up of Gary Hemming, René Desmaison, Lothar Mauch, Gil Bodin, Mike Brurke, François Guillot, the filmmaker Gérard Bauer organizes to join them from below and succeeded after a fierce struggle the rescue. The press seizes the event and elevates Gary Hemming to the rank of national hero. All the newspapers feature this big guy with a cool attitude, mismatched clothes, jovial smile and long blond hair on the front page. From then on, he was nicknamed: "the beatnik of the peaks".

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Gary Hemming, le beatnik des cimesGary Hemming, le beatnik des cimes · 1996
Gary Hemming, le beatnik des cimes
★ 10.01996
MovieDocumentary
The American mountaineer Gary Hemming marked the era of the 1960s. The story of this "exceptional" character is intimately linked to that of the rescue of the two German mountaineers on the west face of the Drus, in 1966, a rescue which he had took the initiative. While the official emergency services of the EHM try to reach them from above, a pirate rope made up of Gary Hemming, René Desmaison, Lothar Mauch, Gil Bodin, Mike Brurke, François Guillot, the filmmaker Gérard Bauer organizes to join them from below and succeeded after a fierce struggle the rescue. The press seizes the event and elevates Gary Hemming to the rank of national hero. All the newspapers feature this big guy with a cool attitude, mismatched clothes, jovial smile and long blond hair on the front page. From then on, he was nicknamed: "the beatnik of the peaks".

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