October 10: Screening of The Wild Days

Lagoped, in collaboration with Au Vieux Campeur, invites you to the first Parisian screening of the film Les Jours Sauvages, presented by L'Endroit and directed by Yohan Guignard.

In the presence of the film crew, experience 82 minutes of expedition in the Denali massif in Alaska.

4 Savoyard friends have a crazy idea: 50 days of autonomy in Alaska in the Denali massif. Les Jours Sauvages takes us to the rhythm of a logbook in a quest where friendships are invented and put to the test of commitment, where time expands and spirits fly away.

Hélias, Alex, Christophe and Aurel all live in Chamonix. This cradle of world mountaineering and expert skiing is their daily playground. They have all participated in long, difficult expeditions at high altitude. They have bivouacked on the face or gotten lost on gigantic Himalayan glaciers, dug an igloo to shelter from storms. Waiting, doubts, giving up, and success are stages and feelings that they know and whose lessons they know how to appreciate. They are also full of willpower, strength, spirit and good humor.

After directing his first short fiction film Adieu la Chair!, Yohan Guignard won the Prix du Court Métrage at Cinéma du Réel in 2021 with his documentary Random Patrol, selected for the Césars. In 2022, he directed two documentaries for France TV: Les Travaux et les Jours, in a Cistercian abbey, and Jeunes Bergers, where he follows the first summer pasture of young people in training. In 2023 and 2024, he focused on portraits of mountaineers and expedition stories with A la Hauteur and Les jours sauvages.

Alexandre Marchesseau, a mountain guide and ski instructor based in Chamonix, is known for his adventurous ski and monoski expeditions, notably to Satopanth (7,075 m) in India and Mount Logan (5,954 m) in Canada. Involved in the associative world, he is part of the core of Boutch à boutch, which has been the incubator of citizen initiatives in the Chamonix valley for over 10 years.

Hélias is a renowned French mountaineer, Himalayan climber and mountain guide. He has made ascents and opened new routes all over the world, in the Alps, in the Himalayas (in Pakistan and Nepal), and in the Andes (in Argentina and Peru). He received a Piolet d'Or in 2018 for the ascent of the South Face of Nuptse.

Originally from the resort of Les Gets, Christophe Tricou is a jack-of-all-trades who boldly pushes back the approaches to the mountain. In turn, a high mountain guide, ski instructor, paraglider, skipper, airplane pilot or even wingsuiter. He goes from one element to another
the other with disconcerting ease.

Aurel, a steep slope skier from Chamoniard and passionate about downhill biking, he loves to get out of his comfort zone, discover and progress. A former alpine ski competitor up to the European Cup, he turned the page on his career to devote himself entirely to the expression of his art, combining aesthetics and total commitment. What really drives him are the mountains with very steep slopes and winding paths, which he tackles on skis, with creativity and inspiration.