Summits of My Life

The documentary follows the mountain runner Kilian Jornet and his friends. Summits from Mont Blanc to Elbrus are climbed, and the descents are run. The film gives the landscape not as a backdrop but as the ground being run on. Reaching a summit is not told here as a conquest; cutting the time and coping with the mountain are the subject. Emelie Forsberg, Bruno Brunod and Mathéo Jacquemoud also appear. Height, cold and exhaustion stand throughout inside the images. The account moves through what the athletes themselves say and adds no commentary from outside. The attempts on different mountains are tied together as parts of one undertaking. Sèbastien Montaz-Rosset’s French documentary was completed in 2014.