Bernard Gorgeon

Born: 1953-01-01

Born in Marseille in 1953, Bernard Gorgeon began climbing in the Calanques at the age of ten. It was there that he worked as a mountain guide for about ten years. With a few loyal friends, he opened many routes in the region up to the Verdon cliffs where he has lived for about forty years. With Patrick Edlinger, the icon of an entire generation, and his friends of the time, Bernard Gorgeon participated in the development of a culture based on frugality and non-conformism, a taste for freedom and rock. It is this art of living in the wilderness that we discover throughout this story, with its philosophy, its values, its fraternity, this spirit of rope and friendship so particular that makes climbing and the mountains so beautiful. In 2021, he published the book "Une Vie à Grimper" with Glénat editions.


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Overdon

as Self
Released: 1980-01-01

First film in a series of three with Over-Ice and Oversand and one of the first films on free...

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Verdon - The Show Must Go On

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Released: 2021-08-16

Documentary on climbing in the famous Verdon gorges, a mecca for world climbing. From Bernard...

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Oversand

as Self
Released: 1981-01-01

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