Pierre Mazeaud
Oyuncu · d. 1929 · Lyon, France
Pierre Mazeaud, born August 24, 1929 in Lyon's 4th arrondissement, is a French lawyer, politician, and mountaineer. From 1968 onward, he served at various times as a Gaullist MP, Vice-President of the National Assembly, Secretary of State, State Councilor, member, and then President of the Constitutional Council until March 2007. Pierre Mazeaud's family includes several well-known lawyers. He had a difficult high school career. Expelled from middle school to high school, he earned his baccalaureate and earned a law degree and then a doctorate in law in 1955. At the beginning of his law studies, he joined the Anarchist Federation (FA) and became a member of its student committee. He then wrote for Le Libertaire under the pseudonym Pierre Hem. He wrote 11 articles between July 14, 1950, and May 25, 1951, on student struggles, anti-colonialism, and defending the "third front" strategy ("Neither Stalin nor Truman") advocated by the FA. Pierre Mazeaud belonged to two worlds largely alien to each other: the world of politics and that of mountaineering. Coming from a line of aristocrats from the universities and the judiciary, Mazeaud was the opposite of the bourgeois spirit that thrives today like never before. He was an important political figure of the Fifth Republic and one of the few—on the right, no less!—to have belonged to and flourished within one of the few remaining transclassist circles: that of mountaineering, which brought together young people from all walks of life, choosing to tackle the still-untouched routes and faces of the Alps, sometimes at the cost of their lives or even loss. Pierre Mazeaud is known for his freedom of tone, ideas, and expression, due to his youth as a very active anarchist activist. His strong character and the strength of his convictions do not alter his sense – never found wanting – of friendship, a sense probably forged in the routes opened in the Mont Blanc massif. These climbs taught him the value of human trust necessary in the mountains, and dedicated a friendship of several decades with the great Italian mountaineer Walter Bonatti, an undeniably major figure in the history of mountaineering, and to whom Mazeaud readily says that he owed his life in 1961. He will make several first major ascents in the company of the greatest names in post-war mountaineering: René Desmaison, Walter Bonnatti, Robert Paragot and Lucien Bérardini among others, in the Alps, the Himalayas, the Algerian Sahara, etc. "I experienced my greatest joys in the mountains. And it can make you smile; I found friendship there, and that's something. More than politics, more than my work as a lawyer, the mountains were my passion to the very end." In 1998, Pierre Mazeaud proposed that the fight against racism be included in the preamble to the Constitution. A leading figure in the National Assembly and French political life, he was an extraordinary figure, at once a scrupulous jurist, a stormy orator, and a man of conviction with a strong enough character to leave no one indifferent, nor to remain silent when a fundamental issue, in his view, emerged in the debate. In 2021, his visits to the Palais Bourbon saddened him, and his hatred of the far right was exacerbated.
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Film10.0BelgeselMaceraFrom Trento to Chamonix, via Zermatt; from the Morgiou cove to the Eiger's north face; from Planica to the Lavaredo peaks, the Alps are depicted, illustrated, and magnified in all their unique and sublime beauty, through the sports practiced there and the most typical customs and traditions of their inhabitants. A helicopter rescue and a parachute jump from the Red Wall by Wolfgang Weizenbocks are experiences not to be missed.
Sensation Alpen
1966 · 1 votes
Film10.0BelgeselDramLes Parois de la Mémoire – Le Pilier Central du Frêney is a 25-minute documentary film directed by Jérôme Equer in 1994 and broadcast on the FR3 weekly program Montagne. The film highlights the tragic story of the July 1961 attempt to climb the Frêney Central Pillar (on the Italian side of Mont Blanc), during which a Franco-Italian team—led notably by Pierre Mazeaud and Walter Bonatti—was trapped by a violent, multi-day storm of exceptional intensity, resulting in a tragic retreat and the deaths of four of the seven climbers. It draws on archival footage, excerpts from Lothar Brandler’s film Inferno am Montblanc, and firsthand accounts from the participants, including mountaineer and politician Pierre Mazeaud.
Les Parois de la Mémoire - Le Pilier Central du Frêney
1994 · 1 votes
Film10.0BelgeselDramOn July 11, 1961, a rope team of seven men—led by the Italian Walter Bonatti and the Frenchman Pierre Mazeaud—set out to scale the Frêney Pillar on the south face of Mont Blanc. After days of grueling effort—and just as they were nearing their goal—they were trapped by a violent storm. Stranded at an altitude of over 4,500 meters in temperatures of minus 20 degrees, the seven climbers were forced to bivouac in hellish conditions. Exhausted, spent, and with one of their number injured, they displayed extraordinary solidarity, exemplary courage, and a determination that commands respect right to the very end. Yet the mountain proved cruel. Lost in fog, blinded by the darkness, and gripped by the cold, four of the seven climbers perished from exhaustion after a perilous five-day, five-night ordeal in hell. Only three made it down alive, including the Italian Walter Bonatti and the Frenchman Pierre Mazeaud.
Film10.0BelgeselMaceraIn 1971, American Norman Dyhrenfurth led an expedition of 30 climbers from 13 different countries, including Don Whillans, Dougal Haston, Naomi Uemura, Pierre Mazeaud, Michel Vaucher, and others. This expedition aimed to simultaneously climb the southwest face and the direct west ridge. During the ascent, Indian climber Harsh Vardhan Bahuguna perished at Camp 3 in a storm. The expedition, already suffering from organizational problems, was severely tested after his death. The Americans decided, unilaterally, to abandon the west ridge. The Europeans, who had spent days equipping the route, were left out and felt relegated to the roles of route setters and porters. Frenchman Pierre Mazeaud, Swiss climbers Michel and Yvette Vaucher, and Italian Carlo Mauri then left the expedition. The Americans continued their ascent of the southwest face up to 8,350 meters before giving up.
Surrender To Everest
1971 · 1 votes
Film10.0BelgeselIn 1961 the southern face of the Central Pillar of Mont Blanc was still unclimbed. Two roped parties of climbers decided to come together to attempt to open a new route. Four days of violent storms caught the climbers just 80 metres from the summit. Of the seven climbers, only three returned home. One of the most intense and dramatic events in the history of climbing relives on the big screen, thanks to accounts and images of the feat.
Grimpeurs
2015 · 1 votes
Film10.0BelgeselDramRe-enactment of the attempt made in July 1961 by a french-italian group in order to climb Freney Pillar, in Mont Blanc massif. The expedition was composed by the frenchmen Pierre Mazaud, Robert Guillaume, Pierre Kohlmann and Antoine Vieille and by the italians Walter Bonatti, Andrea Oggioni e Roberto Gallieni. The groups arrived separatly to the camp of Col de la Fourche, but with the same aim. They united by chance to conquest the famous peak. The attempt is crushed by bad wheather and, during the descent, three French and an Italian will die.
Inferno am Montblanc
1972 · 1 votes
Film10.0BelgeselLà-Haut, Un supplément d'âme
2001 · 1 votes
Film10.0BelgeselPierre Mazeau has managed to unite three of his passions which seem to have nothing in common, at a very high level: mountaineering, jurisprudence and policy. The Everest mountaineer, rescued from the Freney Pillar, the passionate jurist, the former sports minister, privy counsellor, and president of the French Constitutional Court is a charismatic personality. This sensitive film portrait follows a line, which Pierre Mazeaud himself has quoted: “Alpinism belongs to those who provide themselves with means to reach their goals, to those who are fully committed to a goal, to those, who know the value of solidarity of men, and to those who are aware that true human existence can only be fulfilled by proceeding with a team of roped-partners.”
Pierre Mazeaud, la vie en face(s)
2013 · 1 votes
Film10.0BelgeselIn 1983, three climbers became the first French people to reach the summit of Everest. Among them were expedition leader Pierre Mazeaud and a promising 25-year-old climber, Jean Afanassieff. Twenty years later, the two legends, accompanied by mountain guide Michel Pellé, retrace the steps of their exploit and make the trek from Kathmandu to the foot of the roof of the world. This is an opportunity to retrace the history of the successive assaults on Everest and to assess the current situation of a mountain that has become a victim of its own success: while Sherpas have been able to take advantage of Western enthusiasm and thus enrich themselves and equip the summit to make it more accessible, the site's attendance poses numerous problems, both human and ecological.
Film10.0BelgeselMaceraIt was a sporting feat, a national feat, but also and above all a technical feat: on October 15, 1978, three French mountaineers, for the first time, reached the summit of Everest: Pierre Mazeaud, Nicolas Jaeger, Jean Afanassieff, accompanied by Kurt Diemberger, Austrian mountaineer and cameraman. A performance broadcast live on the radio thanks to the France inter teams and filmed for television by TF1. Christian Brincourt, a great French reporter, tells us about this expedition and questions the members of the expedition on their motivations. With Pierre Mazeaud (expedition leader), Jean-François Mazeaud (doctor), Claude Deck, Raymond Despiau, Nicolas Jaeger, Walter Cecchinel, Jean Afanassieff, Kurt Diemberger.
Everest 78, ou les Français sur le toit du monde
Everest 78, or the French on top of the world
1978 · 1 votes
Film10.0BelgeselMaceraMountaineering documentary on the Nanga Parbat expedition, in India, in 1982. Led by mountaineer Pierre Mazeaud, this international expedition brings together eight French people, two Germans, an Iraqi, an Austrian and an Englishman including Michel Afanassieff, Michel Berrueux, Walter Cecchinel, Kurt Diemberger, Hans Engl, Shah Jehan, Karim Imamdad and others. On July 14, 1982, Hans Engl reached the summit after twelve hours of struggle.