Guido Monzino

Filmed chronicle by mountain filmmaker Mario Fantin, of the 1964-1965 expedition of the Italian mountaineer Guido Monzino to the summits of Hoggar in the Algerian Sahara with the ascents of Garet el Djenoun, Tizouyag Nord, Saouinan and Iharen. The mountain ranges of the Hoggar desert turn out to be more complex and interesting than most mountaineers suspected at the time.

Guido Monzino (1928-1988), heir to an industrial family, dedicated much of his life to exploration. From the crossing of the Grandes Murailles to Cerro Paine, to the first ascent of Kanjut Sar in 1959, Monzino, along with guides from Cervinia, undertook twenty expeditions around the world. The documentary combines testimonies from those who knew him with images of the expeditions that Monzino himself had filmed by the greatest cameramen of the time, such as Emilio Fantin.