A man climbed an 800m wall alone with 3 days of food. This is how they faked it.
"Les Habitants des Flammes de Pierre" is the making-of documentary for the film "The Pillar of Solitude," which recounts Walter Bonatti's historic 1955 ascent of the southwest pillar of the Drus (the Bonatti Pillar) in the Mont Blanc massif, an 800-meter-high vertical face, climbed solo in six days, despite having only three. In the film, the renowned Swiss mountaineer Michel Vaucher portrays Bonatti. Unlike the film "The Pillar of Solitude," which was shot in black and white, the making-of documentary was filmed in color.
Cinematography
Color footage of fake peril that looks more real than the 'real' film.
Production
Michel Vaucher playing Bonatti while Bonatti was still alive. Bold.
Director
Gilbert Dassonville
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Walter Bonatti's 1955 ascent was so groundbreaking that it took four years just to figure out how to film a recreation of it.
The Bonatti Pillar was later partially destroyed by rockfall in 2005—making this color documentation accidentally precious archival footage of a vanished route.
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