October 10, 2024: Screening of The Wild Days

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

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

Four friends from Savoy have a crazy idea: 50 days of self-sufficiency in Alaska in the Denali massif. Les Jours Sauvages takes us along like a logbook in a quest where friendships are created and tested by commitment, where time stretches and minds soar.

Hélias, Alex, Christophe, and Aurel all live in Chamonix. This cradle of world mountaineering and expert skiing is their daily playground. They have all taken part in long, difficult high-altitude expeditions. They have bivouacked on sheer rock faces or gotten lost on huge Himalayan glaciers, dug igloos to shelter from storms. Waiting, doubts, giving up, and success are stages and feelings they know well and appreciate the lessons from. They are also full of willpower, strength, spirit, and good humor.

After making his first fiction short film Adieu la Chair!, Yohan Guignard won the Short Film Prize at Cinéma du Réel in 2021 with his documentary Random Patrol, which was selected for the César Awards. In 2022, he made two documentaries for France TV: Les Travaux et les Jours, set in a Cistercian abbey, and Jeunes Bergers, where he follows the first summer grazing season of young trainees. In 2023 and 2024, he focuses on portraits of mountaineers and expedition stories with A la Hauteur and Les jours sauvages.

Alexandre Marchesseau, a high mountain guide and ski instructor based in Chamonix, is known for his adventurous ski and monoski expeditions, notably at Satopanth (7075 m) in India and Mount Logan (5954 m) in Canada. Involved in the nonprofit world, he is part of the core team 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 high mountain guide. He carries out ascents and opens new routes worldwide, in the Alps, the Himalayas (in Pakistan and Nepal), and 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 Les Gets resort, Christophe Tricou is a jack-of-all-trades who boldly pushes the boundaries of mountain approaches. He has been a high mountain guide, ski instructor, paragliding instructor, skipper, airplane pilot, and wingsuit flyer. He moves from one element to
the other with disarming ease.

Aurel, a steep slope skier from Chamonix and a downhill biking enthusiast, loves stepping out of his comfort zone, discovering, and progressing. A former alpine ski competitor up to the European Cup, he has turned the page on his career to fully dedicate himself to expressing his art, blending aesthetics and total commitment. What truly drives him are the mountains with very steep slopes and winding paths, which he approaches on skis with creativity and inspiration.