Documentaries 50/60

BEAUTIFUL HOLIDAYS

René VERNADET
1960
Version : French
Duration : 20'
Format : 35 mm. - Béta Digit. - Mpeg4
Black & white
Scriptwriter : René VERNADET, Guido MAGNONE
Producer : ARMOR Films - Fred ORAIN
Country France
Music Pierre ARVAY
Picture René VERNADET
Stage set In the Alps, Chamonix Valley
With the participation of Le Haut Commissariat à la Jeunesse & aux Sports, Le Commissariat Général du Tourisme, U.N.C.M.
Prize list Sélectionné au X° Festival Internazional de Film della Montagna e dell'esplorazione - Trente - 1961
Archive footage - Two young people walking in the mountains, rucksacks on their backs,
- Two young people in a roped party on snow,
- Climbing lessons in the classroom and in the field,
- Two young people in difficulty on a rock face,
- Abseiling.

Original title : Les Belles Vacances

Two young men, budding mountaineers, without listening to their parents’ advice to be careful, or that of an instructor on the train taking them to Chamonix, set off to climb in the Alps. Although they didn’t have a lot of experience, they were confident enough for their age, and as soon as they arrived they started climbing, leaving others to train on the “cow mountain”.
On a glacier, a difficult passage forced them to abandon their rucksacks and some of their equipment. Soon an impassable wall forced them to turn back. They had to set pitons and abseil down. Alas, the hammer remained in the rucksack and they were stuck for the night, without food or clothing, in the hope that the next day a roped party would come and rescue them. An instructor and a guide, accompanying young beginners, will come to rescue them and lead them to the summit by the right route.