Gary Hemming, le beatnik des cimes

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Gary Hemming
Gary Hemming

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François Guillot
François Guillot

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Gil Bodin
Gil Bodin

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René Desmaison
René Desmaison

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Pierre Mazeaud
Pierre Mazeaud

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Lothar Mauch
Lothar Mauch

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Maurice Herzog
Maurice Herzog

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Lauren Hemming
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    Gary Hemming, le beatnik des cimes

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    The American mountaineer Gary Hemming marked the era of the 1960s. The story of this "exceptional" character is intimately linked to that of the rescue of the two German mountaineers on the west face of the Drus, in 1966, a rescue which he had took the initiative. While the official emergency services of the EHM try to reach them from above, a pirate rope made up of Gary Hemming, René Desmaison, Lothar Mauch, Gil Bodin, Mike Brurke, François Guillot, the filmmaker Gérard Bauer organizes to join them from below and succeeded after a fierce struggle the rescue. The press seizes the event and elevates Gary Hemming to the rank of national hero. All the newspapers feature this big guy with a cool attitude, mismatched clothes, jovial smile and long blond hair on the front page. From then on, he was nicknamed: "the beatnik of the peaks".

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    1996-03-01

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