L'Homme qui revient de haut (2004)

What compels a man to push ever higher the limits of accessibility? After thirty years of fierce struggle with the highest peaks on earth, Marc Batard has finally found the answers to these questions. He had to tread the summit of Everest twice, including once by smashing the speed record in 24 hours without oxygen to the summit, to climb the most difficult faces of the Alps to see the way of inner healing. It was through physical suffering that he was able to confront the evil of the soul. That he was finally able to talk about the violence of childhood, the shock dragged like a ball and chain for decades. His summit therapy accomplished, Marc Batard talks about himself in this documentary by Gilles Perret.