This is the excerpt from the filmic documentation, captured by four cameras, of the carefully organized French expedition that, in the spring of 1958, attempted to climb Mount Jannu, in the 7710-meter-high Nepalese Himalayas: a monolithic wall, rising 3,000 meters above the surrounding bases, crowned by improbable ice towers.
These climbers, bent on conquering the "hardest," came within 350 meters of the summit.
Their generous attempt failed because of the insistence of higher than anticipated difficulties, and because they had had to follow a route so developed in length that it absorbed too precious a share of time and material.