They sailed to the end of the world just to climb a mountain nobody cared about. Obsessed? Absolutely.
In 1979, aboard the Basile, a Damien II type ship (Joubert design), French sailors and mountaineers sailed in the footsteps of the explorer Ernest Shackleton, considered one of the main figures of the heroic age of exploration in Antarctica, towards South Georgia, where they climbed Mount Paget, which is part of the Allardyce range and peaks at an altitude of 2,935 metres.
Cinematography
Grainy 16mm makes Antarctica feel impossibly remote.
Practical Effects
Real sailors, real ice, real frostbite risk.
Director
Denis Ducroz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Damien II was legendary sailor Jean-Yves Terlain's vessel, built for impossible voyages.
This captures a vanished era: pre-digital expeditions where nobody could track you and failure meant actual death.
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