First On The Rope

Premier De Cordée

1999 • 1 Season

Chamonix in the 1930s was a resort where a cosmopolitan, fashionable and sporting society thronged, in search of novelties and thrills found in mountaineering. These people rub shoulders with the Chamoniards but do not meet except on the trails of Mont-Blanc. The accident of Joseph, the patriarch of Servettaz, guides from generation to generation, marked the spirits. It is his son Zian who decides to take up the torch. Married to Bianca, the daughter of the wealthy Milanese industrialist who was partly responsible for her father's death, Zian lives out her great love story - a threesome - with the mountain always remaining the most demanding mistress. Tired of the agonizing expectations and loneliness during her husband's ascents, Bianca returns to Italy, Zian joins her, but society life is not his world, he returns to Chamonix. During an outing in the mountains, Zian falls into a crevasse. Bianca, alerted by a presentiment, returns to the one she loves above all...

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S01 E02 • Monday, Apr 26, 1999 • Apr 26

The accident of the mountain guide Joseph, the patriarch of Servettaz, marked the spirits. His son Zian decides to take up the torch. Married to Bianca, the daughter of the wealthy Milanese industrialist who accompanied her father in the ascent of the Drus, Zian lives his great love story, a three-way love story, the mountain always remaining the most demanding mistress. Tired of the agonizing expectations and loneliness during her husband's climbs, Bianca returns to Italy. Zian will join her, but the society life of the Milanese bourgeoisie is far from his values ​​and he returns to his mountains, to Chamonix. During a chamois hunting trip in the mountains, Zian falls into a crevasse. Bianca, alerted by a presentiment, returns to the one she loves above all...

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