Kľúčové slovo Mountain Accident

Film je natoceny na motivy rovnomennej knihy Joe Simpsona. Rozprava skutocny pribeh dvoch britskych horolezcov Joe Simpsona a Simon Yatesa, ktori prezili v roku 1985 tragicku nehodu vysoko v peruanskych Andach. Pri zliezani zapadnej steny oboch spajalo jedine lano. Simpson sa vsak nestastne zranil a oboch dostal do zivot ohrozujucej situacie. Jedine, co mohol Yates pre oboch spravit, bolo prerezat lano, ktore ich spajalo. Simpson spadol do ladovej trhliny, odkial sa plazenim a v bolestiach bez akehokolvek jedla a vody po temer styroch dnoch dostal spat do zakladneho tabora. Dorazil iba hodinu pred Yatesovym odchodom spat do Britanie.

Chamonix in the 1930s was a resort where a cosmopolitan, fashionable and sporting society thronged, in search of novelties and thrills found in mountaineering. These people rub shoulders with the Chamoniards but do not meet except on the trails of Mont-Blanc. The accident of Joseph, the patriarch of Servettaz, guides from generation to generation, marked the spirits. It is his son Zian who decides to take up the torch. Married to Bianca, the daughter of the wealthy Milanese industrialist who was partly responsible for her father's death, Zian lives out her great love story - a threesome - with the mountain always remaining the most demanding mistress. Tired of the agonizing expectations and loneliness during her husband's ascents, Bianca returns to Italy, Zian joins her, but society life is not his world, he returns to Chamonix. During an outing in the mountains, Zian falls into a crevasse. Bianca, alerted by a presentiment, returns to the one she loves above all...