The Barmasse family from Valtournenche in the Aosta Valley comprises four generations of mountain-dwellers, mountaineers, explorers and Matterhorn mountain-guides. They have only one objective: head into the mountains on a hunt for adventure. It was on the Gran Becca (Great Mountain), the local nickname for the Matterhorn, that on 17 March 2010 Marco and Hervé, a father-and-son climbing team, attempted to scale the gully that plummets 1,200 metres from Enjambée to the foot of the Matterhorn’s south face. Marco first attempted the climb twenty-four years previously; today he is accompanied by his son. This arduous route was described by the best mountaineers of the 1980s as “one of the last great logical projects in the Alps”, one that was still left unfinished in 2010.
Directors
Hervé Barmasse
Hervè Barmasse was born in Aosta in 1977. A climber, national mountain guide instructor, Cervino mountain guide, ski and snowboard instructor and ski federation trainer, he writes for the main mountain magazines and has been a television presenter for Qui Montagne, a programme broadcast on the regional network of the Valle d’Aosta. At the age of just 32, he has already made several first ascents in the Alps, Patagonia and Pakistan and received various important prizes and awards. His "Linea continua" won the Audience Prize at the Trento Film Festival in 2011.
Damiano Levati
He is a professional photographer and his interests have always focused on photography and the mountains. On terminating his university studies, he decided to make the combination of these two passions into his job, recounting the unique relationship between man and nature through his images. Together with Matteo Vettorel and Emilio Previtali, he founded the production company STORY.teller COLLECTIVE. “Hardest of the Alps” is the first film they have produced.
GIACOMO BERTHET
Giacomo Berthet was born in Aosta in 1978, graduating in performing arts in Turin. He began his activities as a filmmaker in 2003, working with the main Italian television channels. In 2007 he made "Io ci credo", presented by Sport Movies & TV in Milan. His passion for the mountains and his desire to narrate stories about them brought him into contact with the Barmasse family. This meeting led to the film "Linea continua".
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